Humanoid robots

By Nidhi Singh
The first question comes:

What are robots

 Robots
Robots are machines
designed to execute one
or more tasks
automatically with speed
and precision.
 History of robots:
• The term "robot" was first used to denote
fictional automata in the 1921 play Rossum's
Universal Robots by the Czech writer Karel
Čapek...
Digitally controlled industrial robots and robots
using artificial intelligence have been built since the
2000s.
Humanoid robots
Humanoid robots
are robots with their body
shape built to resemble
the human body..
 Various humanoid robots and
their possible applications in
daily life are featured in an
independent documentary film
called Plug & Pray, which was
released in 2010.
More facts about Humanoid robots:

Some humanoid robots also have heads

designed to replicate human facial
features such as eyes and mouth.

Androids are humanoid robots built to

aesthetically resemble humans.
 Besides the research,
humanoid robots are being
developed to perform human
tasks like personal
assistance, through which
they should be able to assist
the sick and elderly, and dirty
or dangerous jobs. 
Humanoids are also suitable
for some procedurally-based
vocations, such as reception-
desk administrators and
automotive manufacturing
line workers.
 In essence, since they can
use tools and operate
equipment and vehicles
designed for the human
form, humanoids could
theoretically perform any
task a human being can, so
long as they have the
proper software.
Humanoid robots, especially those
with artificial
intelligence algorithms, could be
useful for future dangerous or
distant space exploration missions,
without having the need to turn
back around again and return
to Earth once the mission is
completed.
Some popular humanoid robots :
iCub robot at the Genoa Nao is a robot created for
Science Festival, Italy, in companionship. It also competes
2009 in the RobCup soccer
championship.
TOPIO, a humanoid robot, Enon was created to be a personal
played ping pong at assistant. It is self-guiding and has limite
Tokyo International Robot speech recognition and synthesis. It can
Exhibition (IREX) 2009 also carry things.
ASIMO is a humanoid robot
created by Honda in 2000. It
is currently displayed in Atlas from Boston Dynamics
Miraikan museum in the
Japanese capital city of
Tokyo. 
 Sophia(2015) is a humanoid robot
developed by "Hanson Robotics", Hong
Kong, and modelled after Audrey
Hepburn. Sophia has artificial
intelligence, visual data processing and
facial recognition.
 What affects the functioning of
humanoid robots ?
•Sensors
•Actuators
 Sensors:
• A sensor is a device that measures some attribute of the world.
Being one of the three primitives of robotics (besides planning
and control), sensing plays an important role in robotic
paradigms.
Sensors can be classified into two types according to
the type of measurement information that they give
as output:
1.)Proprioceptive sensors

2.)Exteroceptive sensors
 Vision sensors
• In humanoid robots, vision sensors are used to recognize
objects and determine their properties. Vision sensors work
most similarly to the eyes of human beings. Most humanoid
robots use CCD cameras as vision sensors.

Sound sensors
Sound sensors allow humanoid robots to hear speech and
environmental sounds, and perform as the ears of the human
being. Microphones are usually used for this task.
 Actuators
Actuators are the motors responsible for motion in the
robot..Humanoid robots are constructed in such a way that they
mimic the human body, so they use actuators that perform
like muscles and joints, though with a different structure. To
achieve the same effect as human motion, humanoid robots use
mainly rotary actuators. They can be either
electric, pneumatic, hydraulic, piezoelectric or ultrasonic.
Human evolution vs humanoid evolution
 References
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanoid_robot

www.hansonrobotics.com
Thank you... For watching this presentation..

-Nidhi Singh