The Making Of Sophia: Hardware Engineering for Arms and Hands - Hanson Robotics

History of Robotics and Automation: Robot Arms and Hands

While these robotic systems look like other robot arms, they embed artificial intelligence, machine learning, and vision technology that will shape Amazon’s robot fleet for years to come. Robin, for example, must calculate how to identify, move, and sort parcels that may rest atop one another as they are presented via a conveyor. The palletizer / depalletizer must calculate how to stack a stable pallet on the fly. To do it, they use both cutting-edge AI algorithms that make decisions in fraction

It's been a big fall for humanoid robots, with the reveal of two new prototypes in the US. Now Russia has entered the ring with Aidol—sort of. The robot's grand reveal at a technology conference in Moscow didn't go as planned. It emerged from backstage and walked about five feet before face-planting onto the stage. Two humans leapt to pick up the robot and dragged it offstage, shielding it with a black curtain. Aidol was intended to mark Russia's entry into the global race for humanoid machines,