Introducing TOCABI - Humanoid Robot Design

#Humanoid #Robot used by #TeamSNU for ANA #Avatar_XPRIZE . Intro Text: After eight years of development, the humanoid robot named #TOCABI (Torque Controlled compliAnt BIped ) is finally completed, making its first debut at the international ANA AVATAR XPRIZE competition. New Jersey Institute of Technology Professor Mathew Schwartz began working on the design of the robot while he was a researcher at the Digital Human Research Center, AICT, a lab in South Korea run by Seoul National University (SNU) at the direction of Jaeheung Park, Professor at SNU. During that time, the Digital Human Research Center group built the lower legs and a temporary upper body of the robot. In 2016, the design of the upper body began, and since 2017 when Schwartz joined NJIT’s industrial design program, he and Park have continued to work as an interdisciplinary team, combining the aesthetics, mechanics and industrial design with real-world challenges of research, engineering, prototyping, and manufacturing. The science and