iCub is a one meter tall open source robotics humanoid robot testbed for research into human cognition and artificial intelligence.. It was designed by the RobotCub Consortium of several European universities, built by Italian Institute of Technology, and is now supported by other projects such as ITALK. [3] The robot is open-source, with the hardware design, software and …

Who: iCub. What: a “child” humanoid robot. When: project started in 2004. Where: IIT, Genova, Italy. Why: a platform to study the emergence of cognitive capabilities

History. The RobotCub Consortium, funded in part by the European Commission's Cognitive Systems and Robotics program, started developing the humanoid iCub in 2004. The first version was released in 2008. New versions followed, upgrading the robot's head mechanics, upper-body skin, and sensing. Researchers used iCub as a platform to study cognition, locomotion, and …

Dec 20, 2017 · The first iCub design (iCub 1.0) focused on the hands and their manipulation skills. The second version (iCub 2.0) targeted whole-body control: legs included elastic actuators and larger feet to ...

iCub is a research-grade humanoid robot designed to help developing and testing embodied AI algorithms. iCub is the ideal companion to your robotics laboratory.

Jan 19, 2022 · Engineers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa, Italy, created an Iron Man-style robot called iCub designed to help search and rescue missions after a natural disaster. IIT's iCub ...

Jan 24, 2024 · Physical avatar technologies benefit from the state of the art in telexistence. A physical avatar system is mainly composed of three components that are often the constituents of telexistence systems: the physical avatar, often a robot capable of navigating the environment; the operator system, which is in charge of retargeting and teleperception; and the communication …

Mar 19, 2022 · The first version of iCub was released in 2008 and thus is now a full-on teenager. And as it turns out, iCub has grown, at least a little bit, with the brand new iCub3—a bigger, heavier ...

Dec 20, 2017 · (A) The latest camera evolution combining a light splitter, an event-driven camera, and a traditional RGB camera (iCub2.0 and iCub3.0). (B) An example of a typical experiment on grasping using iCub1.0.(C) The unique electronic skin of the iCub (upper body only in the photo).(D) A close-up view of the flexible printed circuit board, which constitutes the first layer …

Our humanoid robot, the iCub™ (I as in “I robot”, Cub as in the man-cub from Kipling’s Jungle Book), has been specifically designed to support research in embodied artificial intelligence (AI).