The iCub humanoid robot
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TL;DR
The iCub is a humanoid robot for research in embodied cognition that will be able to crawl on all fours and sit up to manipulate objects and its hands have been designed to support sophisticate manipulation skills.
Abstract
We report about the iCub, a humanoid robot for research in embodied cognition. At 104 cm tall, the iCub has the size of a three and half year old child. It will be able to crawl on all fours and sit up to manipulate objects. Its hands have been designed to support sophisticate manipulation skills. The iCub is distributed as Open Source following the GPL/FDL licenses. The entire design is available for download from the project homepage and repository (http://www.robotcub.org). In the following, we will concentrate on the description of the hardware and software systems. The scientific objectives of the project and its philosophical underpinning are described extensively elsewhere [1].