Humanoid robots have great potential to perform various human-level skills. These skills
involve locomotion, manipulation, and cognitive capabilities. Driven by advances in machine …

In recent years, humanoid robots have gained significant attention due to their potential to
revolutionize various industries, from healthcare to manufacturing. A key factor driving this …

Efficient humanoid robots must have the ability to protect themselves during unexpected
falls. In this paper, a self-protect falling trajectory library for humanoid robots is proposed by …

Robots usually establish contacts at rigid surfaces with near-zero relative velocities.
Otherwise, impact-induced energy propagates in the robot's linkage and may cause …

This article describes RHP Friends, a social humanoid robot developed to enable assistive
robotic deployments in human-coexisting environments. As a use case application, we …

Humanoid robots still have a low-level perception of their surroundings, which is a
formidable obstacle to performing complex tasks. To improve their perceptual capabilities …

In this paper, we propose the multi-contact locomotion planning framework for humanoid
robots that leverages the target contact selection considering its long-term preferability by …

Having a workspace (postural-reachable) for the humanoid arm that is similar to a human
arm around the upper body is essential for effective operation in human-like environments …

In this article, a new 7-DoF humanoid arm that can operate a steering wheel
anthropomorphically, and a task-based design method for such redundant manipulators that …

For humanoid robots, online motion generation on non-flat terrain remains an ongoing
research challenge. Computational complexity is one of the primary restrictions that …