WABIAN-2R
WABIAN (WAseda BIpedal humANoid) is Waseda's series of walking research humanoids started in 1996. WABIAN-2R, 150 cm and 64 kg with 41 DOF, was used to study human-like gait.
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- Status
- Retired
- Category
- research
- First revealed
- 2006
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 150 cm
- Weight
- 64 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 41
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric DC motors
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- no
Where it stands
Waseda bipedal humanoid research line from 1996; WABIAN-2R (2006) used for gait studies with straightened knees.
What stands out
- Waseda walking research platform since 1996
Autonomy, observed
Human-like walking with stretched knees and pelvis motion in Takanishi lab experiments.
Price and volume
Research robot.
Other robots by Waseda University.
WABOT-1
WABOT-1, built by Ichiro Kato's group at Waseda University between 1970 and 1973, is generally considered the world's first full-scale humanoid robot, combining walking, manipulation, vision and speech.
WABOT-2
WABOT-2 was Waseda's specialist musician robot, able to read a score and play a keyboard, presented at the 1985 Tsukuba science expo.
Sources
- 01Takanishi Laboratory WABIAN-2RWaseda University
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