HRP-4C Miim
HRP-4C, nicknamed Miim, was built by AIST with the average proportions of a young Japanese woman and became known for singing and catwalk demonstrations.
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- Status
- Retired
- Category
- historic
- First revealed
- 16 March 2009
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 158 cm
- Weight
- 43 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 42
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Female-appearance humanoid unveiled March 2009; sang and walked on fashion runways.
What stands out
- Modelled on average Japanese female body
- Sang using Vocaloid software
Autonomy, observed
Walked a fashion show in Tokyo in 2009 and sang with lip sync; human-like gait demonstrated 2010.
Hands, sensors, brain
- AI stack: Vocaloid singing, motion capture based walking
Price and volume
AIST cited about JPY 20 million to build.
Milestones.
AIST unveils HRP-4C, a humanoid modelled on a young Japanese woman
HRP-4C is 158 cm and 43 kg with a realistic face, and was designed for entertainment and fashion shows. It walks a catwalk at Tokyo fashion week and later sings using Vocaloid software.
Other robots by AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology).
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HRP-4
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HRP-5P
HRP-5P is AIST's construction-oriented humanoid that demonstrated autonomous drywall installation in 2018, aimed at labour shortages in Japanese building sites.
Sources
- 01HRP-4C, WikipediaWikipedia
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