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HRP-2m Choromet HRP-2m Choromet
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The Choromet is expected to be available from General Robotics in September, 
with price which is less then five grands. The Choromet is about 13-3/4 inches tall, and is capable of walking upright on two legs.
Four companies in Japan have created a relatively low-cost, user-programmable humanoid robot targeting educational and research applications. The HRP-2m Choromet uses technology from Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and is user-programmable thanks to open software running on a user-space real-time Linux implementation. AIST hopes Choromet's ability to run software-based movement programs on a real-time Linux platform will enable researchers and schools to experiment with the effectiveness of humanoid robot motion pattern applications.
The Choromet is based on several technologies developed by AIST, including
A business-card sized SBC (single board computer) 240MHz SH-4 processor, 32MB of RAM, "ARTLinux," an operating system that provides a user-space real-time Linux environment. Humanoid motion application software based on OpenHRP (Humanoid Robotics Project)
Some other Choromet features are: Triaxial force sensors on legs, Accelerometer and gyroscope in trunk, and real-time sensor feedback.
More info at http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8377820601.html |
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