ICub

ICub is a humanoid robot RobotCub project, which is to be an open research platform for cognition. The platform will be freely available for formation and the robot software is developed as open source software. The development of iCub is supported by seven European universities.

The appearance of the iCub is modeled on an approximately three -to four- year-old child. In its final version it will have 53 degrees of freedom.

As basic skills has the robot crawling, general image processing, object recognition and manipulation.

The cost of the iCub are specified with approximately 200,000 EUR. Six iCubs be awarded to projects to which European researchers can apply. The design and programming of the iCubs has been filmed in a documentary called Plug & Pray (2010).

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