Human Anatomy Robot

Original author: NewScientist
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You have much more in common with this robot than with any other - it was designed based on your anatomy.

Ordinary humanoid robots may look like humans, but the work of their synthetic tissues is radically different from our anatomy. A team with people from five European countries says that this is what makes it difficult to create robots that can move like us.

The Eccerobot project was created to copy the process of connecting human bones, muscles and tendons, as well as their interaction and work. Plastic bones replicate biological forms and move on cords that are strong like tendons, while elastic cords mimic muscle function.



Completely copying the human anatomy is of course a rather difficult task, because even simple human actions, like raising a hand, include a complex series of movements of a huge number of bones, muscles and tendons of the robot. However, the team is confident that the solution to such problems will make it possible to design a machine that interacts with the environment like a human.

“We want to translate these ideas into a new kind of ' anthropomimicry robot ' that can interact with the world in ways similar to human ones,” says project leader Owen Holland of the University of Sussex, UK.

The team also intends to endow the robot with artificial intelligence similar to human. Susland

Holland Groupjoined the project with researchers from the Technical University of Munich , Germany; University of Zurich , Switzerland; University of Belgrade , Serbia; and the French band " The Robot Studio ".

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