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An Overview of Humanoid Robots Technologies

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Biomechanics of Anthropomorphic Systems

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Humanoid robots are challenging mechatronics structures with several interesting features. Choosing a humanoid robot to develop applications or pursue research in a given direction might be difficult due to the strong interdependence of the technical aspects. This paper aims at giving a general description of this interdependence and highlight the lessons learned from the impressive works conducted in the past decade. The reader will find in the annex a table synthesizing the characteristics of the most relevant humanoid robots. Without focusing on a specific application we consider two main classes of humanoid robots: the ones dedicated to industrial application and the ones dedicated to human-robot interaction. The technical aspects are described in a way which illustrates the humanoid robots bridging the gap between these two classes. Finally this paper tries to make a synthesis on recent technological developments.

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Stasse, O., Flayols, T. (2019). An Overview of Humanoid Robots Technologies. In: Venture, G., Laumond, JP., Watier, B. (eds) Biomechanics of Anthropomorphic Systems. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93870-7_13

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