Humanoid Robot

Overview

The humanoid robot is a bipedal, general-purpose platform designed to operate in spaces built for people: handling objects, walking on flat and uneven ground, and reacting to a changing environment. Forty degrees of freedom across two legs, two arms, two dexterous hands, and an articulated head give it a roughly human range of motion. Perception, planning, and motor control all run on board, so the robot balances and manipulates without external compute.

Construction

The Torso & Chassis is the structural core, an aluminium and CFRP skeleton that carries every limb mount and houses the electronics. Inside it, the AI Compute Module module runs neural-net inference on an AI SoC and discrete GPU with a real-time safety co-processor, while several motor-controller boards close the current loops for the limbs and a perception suite fuses navigation LiDAR and depth cameras. The articulated Head adds binocular cameras, a depth sensor, a far-field microphone array, and pan/tilt neck actuators.

Limb motion comes from the Arm and Leg assemblies, each built around the Frameless Joint Actuator: a frameless BLDC motor, a zero-backlash harmonic reducer, an output encoder, a joint torque sensor for compliant control, and an integrated driver. The legs use higher-torque hip, knee, and ankle variants with dual encoders. At the wrists, the tendon-driven Hand gives five fingers with fingertip tactile sensing, and each Foot carries a six-axis force/torque sensor and a compliant sole for stable footfalls.

Power is supplied by the Power System, a high-density Li-ion pack with battery management, DC-DC conversion, and a fused distribution board. The whole-body Cabling Harness routes power and data from the torso out to every joint and sensor.