HRP-4C

Close-up of a female robot with a realistic appearance including peach skin, pink lips, brown eyes and a black bob hairdo.
HRP-4C's face has silicone skin and eight motors. Photo: AIST

HRP-4C is an adult-size female android with a realistic head. She can walk, sing, and even dance alongside human performers. Its movements are generated by capturing real people in motion.

Creator

AIST

Year
2009
Country
Japan 🇯🇵
Categories
Features
HRP-4C performing live at a trade show. Video: AIST

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Did you know?

HRP-4C is a professional robotic fashion model; her first gig was modeling a wedding dress.

Full body front view of the robot. Its body is encased in a silver and black covering, but it's hands and face have the appearance of flesh.
The robot is 1.6 meters (5'3") tall. Photo: AIST
Full body rear view of the robot. Its body is encased in a silver and black covering, but it's hands and face have the appearance of flesh. It poses with hands on its hips.
HRP-4C mimics how humans walk and move. Photo: AIST

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The female robot is seen in a dress dancing on stage and singing into a small microphone headset. Two human females are posed behind it, wearing matching outfits.
HRP-4C sings and dances with performers. Photo: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images
The robot wears an extravagant wedding dress, veil and headpiece. It holds a bouquet of flowers as it walks down a runway.
The robot models a wedding dress in a 2009 fashion show. Photo: Toru Hanai/Reuters

Specs

Overview

Able to sing using the vocal synthesizer Vocaloid. Equipped with time-tested walking control technologies developed for the HRP series.

Status

Ongoing

Year

2009

Website
Height
160 cm
Weight
46 kg
Speed
1.8 km/h (walking)
Sensors

Camera, gyroscope, accelerometer, six-axis force sensor.

Actuators

44 servomotors

Degrees of Freedom (DoF)
44 (Face: 8 DoF; Head: 3 DoF; Arm: 6 DoF x 2; Hand: 2 DoF x 2; Torso: 3 DoF; Leg: 7 DoF x 2)
Materials

Silicone rubber skin (face and hands), hard plastic exterior, metal and plastic frame and skeleton.

Compute

Intel Pentium M 1.6 GHz, wireless network

Software

Real-time Linux OS with RT-middleware and OpenHRP3 robot simulator.

Power

48-V nickel-metal hydride battery