Rosie

A vertical rectangular box on wheels supports two industrial orange arms and hands with four fingers. The robots head is composed of cameras and a sensor bar.
This Rosie doesn't look anything like the "Jetsons" one. Photo: IAS Group/TUM

Rosie is a research robot that has four-fingered hands, an omnidirectional mobile base, and a wide variety of sensors. It's designed to undertake many of the household chores that humans hate to do.

Creator

Technical University Munich (TUM)

Year
2009
Country
Germany 🇩🇪
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Features
A robotic pancake maker. Video: TUM

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Did you know?

Rosie knows how to autonomously make pancakes and sausages.

A robot with two advanced industrial arms pours batter onto a hotplate with one four fingered hand, and holds a spatula with the other.
Rosie can make pancakes. Photo: Kurt Fuchs/CoTeSys
A robot with two advanced industrial arms uses kitchen tools to place four sausages into a bowl.
Rosie prepares sausage for a traditional Bavarian breakfast. Photo: IAS Group/TUM

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The robot stands in the kitchen over a hot pot. One hand holds a ladle. There is a plate of food on the counter.
Rosie, don't burn yourself. Photo: Michael Memminger/CoTeSys

Specs

Overview

Design based on commercially available industrial and research components. Equipped with compliant arms and hands. Realistic kitchen lab included.

Status

Inactive

Year

2009

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Width
70 cm
Height
190 cm
Length
90 cm
Weight
300 kg
Speed
7.2 km/h
Sensors

Two high-resolution cameras, thermal camera, three laser scanners, mini cameras in the fingertips, Microsoft Kinect.

Actuators

Two DLR-Kuka LWR arms with DLR-HIT hands.

Degrees of Freedom (DoF)
45 (Arm: 7 DoF x 2; Hand: 13 DoF x 2; Head: 2 DoF; Base: 3 DoF)
Materials

Carbon fiber, aluminum, 3D-printed parts.

Compute

Two PCs each with two Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz CPUs and 12 GB RAM.

Software

CRAM (Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine) and CogMan (Cognitive Manipulation) software platforms.

Power

48-V 110-Ah lead-acid batteries

Cost
Priceless (as reported by the robot's creators)