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.
AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) press imageWe have not sat down with this one. The score below is computed from the data we hold, and the facts on this page are sourced. It is not on sale, so there is nothing to recommend.
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
What people buy instead.
- Status
- Research
- Category
- research
- First revealed
- September 2018
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 182 cm
- Weight
- 101 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 37
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric high-output actuators
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- no
Where it stands
Construction-work research humanoid shown September 2018 installing drywall autonomously.
What stands out
- Autonomous drywall installation demo
Autonomy, observed
Picked up, carried and screwed a gypsum board to a wall autonomously in an AIST video (2018).
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: two-finger hands
- Sensors: head cameras, object recognition
- AI stack: autonomous task planning
Price and volume
Research robot.
Japan built the first humanoids, then stopped shipping them
Japan has 24 humanoids and 12 makers in our record, more than any country except China and the United States. Two of the 24 can be ordered today, and both were first shown in 2009.
Startups, automakers, universities: who builds humanoids
108 makers, nine kinds. Startups hold 37 of the 44 humanoids you can order. Automakers, universities, big tech, conglomerates and NASA hold 45 robots between them and sell none of them.
Why hands are the hardest part of a humanoid
Of 182 humanoids on record, 96 describe their hands and 13 publish a degrees-of-freedom figure for them. The word dexterous appears 21 times and comes with a number once.
Other robots by AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology).
HRP-2 Promet
HRP-2, designed with Kawada Industries and styled by anime designer Yutaka Izubuchi, was the workhorse humanoid of the Japanese Humanoid Robotics Project and of labs such as LAAS-CNRS.
HRP-3 Promet Mk-II
HRP-3 extended the HRP line with weather resistance and tool use, targeting construction and outdoor tasks.
HRP-4
HRP-4 was a lightweight 39 kg humanoid developed by AIST and Kawada as an affordable research platform.
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.
Sources
- 01AIST HRP-5P press releaseAIST · 2018-11-16
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