Hi LMR!
This is the MAAHR project. MAAHR stands for Most Advanced Amateur Humanoid Robot. The goal is to design, build and program a robot which is similar sophisticated as ASIMO. The project is completely open source, everybody can participate. I'll sponsor MAAHR with 15000USD for hard-, software and logistic.
MAAHR's specifications so far:
- 2DOF head with 2 cameras and LCD mouth
- 2DOF main body
- 2 x 5DOF robot arms
- 2 x robot hand, capable to lift at least 1kg
- 3 wheel or tracked base
- Moving objects
- Postures and gestures recognation
- Speech recognation (and distinguishing sounds)
- Synthesized voice
- Recognizes the objects and terrain of its environment
- Facial recognition
- Internet connectivity
A first sketchup draft I did (arms still missing):
