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| The robotic platform initially set up to mimic a four year old child turns ten this year. The iCub humanoid robot is now at work in 25 research units around the world. |
The iCub is a humanoid robot shaped as a four years old child originally designed by a consortium of 11 partners guided by the Italian Institute of Technology. A decade on, and the robot is is still opening new doors to understanding.
The iCub has provided a platform for research in areas ranging from engineering to neurophysiology and developmental psychology within the RobotCub Integrated Project funded by European Commission through its Cognitive Systems and Robotics Unit.
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Today there are more than 25 iCub platforms in use worldwide. Simultaneously the platform evolved significantly in terms of its sensors and actuators. Thanks to the recent improvements the iCub is now equipped with: whole-body distributed tactile and force/torque sensing, series elastic actuators for compliant walking experiments and movable head with microphones, speaker, actuated eyes, eyelids and lips for speech and human-robot interaction studies.
The key advantage of the iCub is that it is an integrated platform that allows the study of complex tasks that require speech and auditory perception, vision as well as proper coordination and integration of sensory data and control. The developers believe that this, more than ever, requires that researchers with different expertise join forces and start working together. Having platforms with compatible software and hardware is clearly a unique opportunity for collaboration.
Happy Birthday iCub!
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