ECCEROBOT - Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot

Standard humanoid robots mimic the human form but the mechanisms used in such robots are very different from those in humans, and the characteristics of the robot reflect this. This places severe limitations on the kinds of interactions such robots can engage in, on the knowledge they can aquire of their environment, and therefore on the nature of their cognitive engagement with the environment. However a new kind of robot is just beginning to emerge - the anthropomimetic robot. Instead of just copying the appearance of a human, it copies the inner structures and mechanisms - bones, joints, musles, and tendons, and thus has the potential for human-like action and interaction in the world.

ECCE, developed within the EU's 7th Framework Programme, is the first robot that follows the anthropomimetic design principles very closely. The project has three major goals: (1) to design and build a robot using anthropomimetic principles, (2) to characterise its dynamics and control it, (3) to exploit its human-like characteristics to produce some human-like cognitive features.

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Science & Technology

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• eccerobot
• humanoid robot

[Apjooz]

What is a brain, if not an advanced processor? Humans have free will of some sort, but only within the boundaries of what they are "programmed" for.

[TheOriginalEntz]

No this is not at all copying how humans work inside. We are a living organism made up of trillions of living cell,s bacteria, virii, etc.

Humans are constantly breaking down and fixing themselves. This is the nature of a human ... not "bones and ligaments" .. those are the natures of a CORPSE of ANY animal.

[SoftwareTheft]

@TheOriginalEntz Nobody is saying it's a copy of human being, outside of the poorly worded description of the video. It's using anthropomimetic design principles, and is obviously a baby step along the road to a true robot.

[alltidelva]

@HermannRattenhuber I think what you are proposing is sound but there is a second up-side to adding a second eye ie the ability to distinguish depth and space rather than just two-dimensional sight.

[mrh112]

"WHY DO I EXIST!"

[JASONANDTRACI]

O LOOK ITS the TERMINATOR To KILL OFF MANKIND FOR THE ELITE, WHO DON'T NEED US USELESS EATERS NO MORE. Wake up people research Eugenics and Trans-humanism, the elite want a world population reduction of over 90%, no joke!

[11matt555]

@TheOriginalEntz Calm down. They just meant they are copying how the muscles pull bones and how the joints move in a human.

[voron27]

that robot looks weird!..

[TimCommerford]

@Apjooz A very, very advanced processor :).

[HermannRattenhuber]

@RobertVollrath

They should at least have added a second eye, in order to let it look more human-like.

[RobertVollrath]

Very well done. Wonderful design.