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Wakamaru
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Wakamaru is a friendly helper robot that can carry on conversations with people, recognize faces, and shake hands. It's been used as a domestic assistant, office receptionist, event host, and sales rep.
- Creator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Country
- Japan 🇯🇵
- Year
- 2003
- Type
- Research, Humanoids
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Did You Know?
Wakamaru is smart enough to call 911 (or the Japanese equivalent) if it suspects something is wrong. |
To test Wakamaru's safety, Mitsubishi performed collision tests between the robot and a child-size crash-test dummy. |
When speaking, Wakamaru uses hand gestures just as humans do. It also makes eye contact and can identify 10 different faces at a time. |
Specs
- FEATURES
- Capable of charging its battery automatically. Has autonomous and teleoperation modes.
- HEIGHT
- 100 cm | 39.4 in
- LENGTH
- N/A cm | N/A in
- WIDTH
- N/A cm | N/A in
- WEIGHT
- 30 kg | 66.1 lb
- SPEED
- 1 km/h | 0.6 mph
- SENSORS
- Two cameras, ultrasound and infrared obstacle detection sensors.
- ACTUATORS
- DC servomotors
- POWER
- Lithium-ion battery, 2 hours of operation
- COMPUTING
- Multiple CPUs
- SOFTWARE
- Linux OS. Custom software.
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOF)
- 13 (Head: 3 DoF; Arm: 4 DoF x 2; Mobile base: 2 DoF)
- MATERIALS
- Hard plastic exterior; metal and plastic skeleton.
- COST
- N/A
- STATUS
- Ongoing
- WEBSITE
- http://www.mhi.co.jp/en/products/detail/wakamaru.html
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