InMoov
InMoov is a life size, 3D printable open source humanoid started in 2012 by French sculptor Gael Langevin. Its upper body, hands and head can be printed on a desktop printer and driven by hobby servos and Arduino boards. It is the most widely built open source humanoid and a common school and maker project.
We 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
- education
- First revealed
- 2012
- Form
- upper-body
- Height
- n/a
- Weight
- n/a
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric hobby servos
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Open source design built by hobbyists and schools worldwide; not a commercial product.
What stands out
- First life size 3D printable humanoid
- Built by makers worldwide
- Optional legs remain experimental
Autonomy, observed
Speech interaction and gesture demonstrations by builders
Can mirror a user's movements with a Kinect
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: 3D printed five finger hands with tendon actuation
- Sensors: cameras, microphone, Kinect optional
- Compute: Arduino boards with a PC running MyRobotLab
- AI stack: MyRobotLab, community scripts
Price and volume
parts cost roughly 1,500 to 3,000 dollars
Thousands of builders have downloaded the files
Open source
Files released under a Creative Commons non commercial licence
Europe's humanoids: who builds them and what you can order
31 of the 182 humanoids on record come from seven European countries. Three can be ordered, two have a price, and the dearest of those is $75,000 for a robot that does not walk.
Open-source humanoids: what you can actually build
24 of the 182 humanoids on record call themselves open source. 15 publish hardware files and software, 3 name a licence, 12 can be ordered, and none of the four on preorder has any autonomy evidence yet.
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.
Sources
- 01InMoovInMoov
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