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Justin, the humanoid robots built to explore space, play ball
The German Aerospace Center develops the robots of the future
Germany’s national centre for aerospace has just added a new member to their family of advanced robots: Agile Justin. This new robot is an optimized version of its predecessor: Rollin’ Justin, which had taken the world by storm when it was shown catching a ball and mimicking John Travolta’s dancing to Chuck Berry’s You Never Can Tell.
Agile Justin the robot has two arms and a friendly face, and moves on the ground thanks to its rolling base. Two stereo cameras are integrated in its “head”, allowing the 3D reconstruction of the robot's environment. These, when combined with an IMU (inertial measurement unit) which compensates for movements of the head, allow Agile Justin to perform various tasks, such as catching a ball, autonomously.
The “Justin” platform is actively used to support the major researches in the robotic field, in particular for the development of robust control strategies and intelligent manipulation planners for dual handed manipulation. In general, the capability to carry out complex manipulation tasks is a key issue.
The DLR’s researchers plan to send yet another version of the robot, Space Justin, into space in the future. As Berthold Baeuml, Lead Scientist in Autonomous Learning Robots at DLR, told Eurotech: Space Justin is used for research in telepresence, which will be the first application of a humanoid in space. This is possible because in a telepresence mode the robot does not have to perform tasks completely autonomously, but can follow the shared-autonomy principle. There the operator (on the ground or the space station) can give higher level commands that the robot executes with its local intelligence sub tasks. The long term goal is to take such a system into space, but we already had components (a little arm with two joints) of the arm-technology for 5 years mounted at the outside of the space station performing successfully high fidelity tasks.
The humanoid robots, however, are also envisioned in household applications.
The DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) is the national centre for aerospace, energy and transportation research of Germany. It was created in 1969 and is now spread over 13 sites all around the country.
Would you like to have one of them at home or does this technology frighten you?
Further reading : http://www.robotic.dlr.de/bcatch
Author: Kellya Clanzig
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Originally shared by EuroTech
Justin, the humanoid robots built to explore space, play ball
The German Aerospace Center develops the robots of the future
Germany’s national centre for aerospace has just added a new member to their family of advanced robots: Agile Justin. This new robot is an optimized version of its predecessor: Rollin’ Justin, which had taken the world by storm when it was shown catching a ball and mimicking John Travolta’s dancing to Chuck Berry’s You Never Can Tell.
Agile Justin the robot has two arms and a friendly face, and moves on the ground thanks to its rolling base. Two stereo cameras are integrated in its “head”, allowing the 3D reconstruction of the robot's environment. These, when combined with an IMU (inertial measurement unit) which compensates for movements of the head, allow Agile Justin to perform various tasks, such as catching a ball, autonomously.
The “Justin” platform is actively used to support the major researches in the robotic field, in particular for the development of robust control strategies and intelligent manipulation planners for dual handed manipulation. In general, the capability to carry out complex manipulation tasks is a key issue.
The DLR’s researchers plan to send yet another version of the robot, Space Justin, into space in the future. As Berthold Baeuml, Lead Scientist in Autonomous Learning Robots at DLR, told Eurotech: Space Justin is used for research in telepresence, which will be the first application of a humanoid in space. This is possible because in a telepresence mode the robot does not have to perform tasks completely autonomously, but can follow the shared-autonomy principle. There the operator (on the ground or the space station) can give higher level commands that the robot executes with its local intelligence sub tasks. The long term goal is to take such a system into space, but we already had components (a little arm with two joints) of the arm-technology for 5 years mounted at the outside of the space station performing successfully high fidelity tasks.
The humanoid robots, however, are also envisioned in household applications.
The DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) is the national centre for aerospace, energy and transportation research of Germany. It was created in 1969 and is now spread over 13 sites all around the country.
Would you like to have one of them at home or does this technology frighten you?
Further reading : http://www.robotic.dlr.de/bcatch
Author: Kellya Clanzig
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93WHRSKg3gE
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