Robot with bones moves like you do
Their project, the Eccerobot, has been designed to duplicate the way human bones, muscles and tendons work and are linked together. The plastic bones copy biological shapes and are moved by kite-line that is tough like tendons, while elastic cords mimic the bounce of muscle.
"We want to develop these ideas into a new kind of 'anthropomimetic robot' which can deal with and respond to the world in ways closer to the ways that humans do," says Owen Holland at the University of Sussex, UK, who is leading the project.
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Welcome to the ECCEROBOT Homepage, the home of the first anthropomimetic robot!!!
ECCCEROBOT (Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot) is a three-year project funded by the 7th framework programme of the EU (ICT-Challenge 2, "Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics") that has the goal to build and control the first anthropomimetic robot and finally, to investigate its human-like cognitive features.
ECCEROBOT - Test rig for the new shoulder design
ECCEROBOT - Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot
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