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General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: Humanoid Project
Begin and end of the Project:
Project costs:
Building effort [person years]:
Source of financial support:

Research group

Humanoid Project, Advanced Research Center for Science and Engineering, Waseda University
9 researchers, 11 advisors members and 84 assistant researchers
4 groups: Vision and Kansei, Design Assistance and Brain, Mechnaism and Mind and Communication.

Staff of the project:

Prof. Shuji Hashimoto (Vision, Kansei)
Prof. Seinosuke Narita (Multimedia)
Associate Prof. Tetsunori Kobayashi (Speech, Vision)
Associate Prof. Atsuo Tkanishi (Humanoid Robot Mechnism)
Prof. Katsuhiko Shirai (Speech, Vision)
Prof. Yoshio Yamasaki (Acoustics)
Associate Prof. Hironori Kasahara (Advanced computing)
Associate Prof. Shigeki Sugano (Manipulator, Artivicial Mind)
Dr. Kazuo Tanie (MEL, MITI)

Information via www: http://www.shirai.info.waseda.ac.jp/humanoid/

Contact address:

Prof. Shuji Hashimoto, Humanoid Research Laboratory secretariat,Advanced Research Center For Science and Engineering
55th building S-7-9, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169, Japan
Tel: ++81-3-3208-8714, Fax: ++81-3-3208-8714, Email: hurel@cfi.waseda.ac.jp

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length Max. speed Number of legs Energy supply
Hight 166 cm Weight 107 kg Act. degrees of freedom 43 Power supply
Width Load Pas. degrees of freedom Power consumption

References

Walking Beam

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: Walking Beam
Begin and end of the Project: 1989-1990
Project costs:
Building effort [person years]: 1
Source of financial support: NASA MRSR Program/Internal IR & D Funding

Research group

Martin Marietta Automation and Robotics Group

Staff of the project:

1982-present (Varied from a few hundred to a handful about a dozen left

Information via www:

Contact address:

Wendell H. Chun, Lockheed Martin
P.O. Box 179, M/S DC3200 Denver, CO, USA
Tel: 303-971-7945, Email: wendell.h.chun@lmco.come

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length 1.5m Max. speed 3cm/s Number of legs 7 Energy supply
Hight 0.3m Weight 12kg Act. degrees of freedom 9 Power supply
Width 0.76m Load Pas. degrees of freedom 14 Power consumption 110 VAC or 24VDC batteries

References

SPIE Mobile Robots III

Walking Gyroscope

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: walking gyroscope
Begin and end of the Project: April, 1980 to May, 1980
Project costs:70
Building effort [person years]: 15
Source of financial support:0

Research group

NA

Staff of the project:

John Jameson

Information via www: http://cdr.stanford.edu/~jameson/jwj_photos.html

Contact address:

Jameson Robotics
John Jameson
San Carlos
CA
650-637-9204, Email: jameson@sunrise.stanford.edu

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length 2m Max. speed 4inches/s Number of legs 2 Energy supply
Hight 8m Weight 1,0 lb Act. degrees of freedom Power supply
Width 5m Load 0,3 lb Pas. degrees of freedom 2, 1, 4 Power consumption flywheel, crank, 0 external consumption

References