MIT Humanoid
The MIT Humanoid is a small, high power bipedal robot from Sangbae Kim's Biomimetic Robotics Lab, built around the proprioceptive actuators of the MIT Cheetah quadrupeds. It was designed for dynamic and acrobatic behaviour such as jumping and flipping. It has served as a testbed for learning based locomotion.
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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
- 2021
- Form
- bipedal
- 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 proprioceptive actuators derived from the MIT Cheetah
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- no
Where it stands
Research platform of the MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab; used for acrobatic control and reinforcement learning studies.
What stands out
- Cheetah derived proprioceptive actuators
- Designed for acrobatic motion
- Used in reinforcement learning locomotion research
Autonomy, observed
Published demonstrations of jumping, backflips in simulation and learned running and walking on hardware
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: none
- Sensors: IMU, joint encoders
- Compute: onboard computer
- AI stack: model predictive control and reinforcement learning policies
Price and volume
research prototype
Other robots by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sources
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