Incontro con iCub (Child Humanoid Robotic Platform)

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Venerdì 24 Gennaio alle ore 9:30 Presso l’Aula Magna «OLIVERI» - polo
didattico di Ingegneria Città Universitaria - viale A. Doria 6

Il Prof. Giorgio Metta (Department Director iCub Facility, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova)
terrà un seminario dal titolo: iCub: a platform for research in embodied cognition

Abstract:
I will present the iCub humanoid, a robotic platform designed for research
in embodied cognition. At 104 cm tall, the iCub has the size of a three and
half years old child. It can crawl on all fours and sit up to manipulate
objects. Its hands have been designed to support sophisticate manipulation
skills. The iCub is distributed as Open Source following the GPL/FDL
licenses and can now count on a worldwide community of enthusiastic
developers. The entire design is available for download from the project
homepage and repository (http://www.iCub.org). About 25 robots have been
built so far which are available in laboratories in Europe, US, and soon in
Japan. It is one of the few platforms in the world with a sensitive
full-body skin to deal with the physical interaction with the environment
including possible people.

Scientific approach:
The iCub stance on cognition posits that manipulation plays a fundamental
role in the development of cognitive capability [1-4]. As many of these
basic skills are not ready-made at birth, but developed during ontogenesis
[5], we aim at testing and developing this paradigm through the creation of
a child-like humanoid robot: i.e. the iCub. This “baby” robot is meant to
act in cognitive scenarios, performing tasks useful for learning while
interacting with the environment and humans. The small (104cm tall), compact
size (approximately 22kg and fitting within the volume of a child) and high
number (53) of degrees of freedom combined with the Open Source approach
distinguish RobotCub from other humanoid robotics projects developed
worldwide.

[Leonardo]

Sicuramente interessante la modalità "open" di un progetto di tale portata. Sembra ci sia molta documentazione nel sito web.