Kibo
![A cartoonish bipedal robot with the appearance of a female astronaut, in a white and black shell.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/7p2whiua/production/09eea647458f2de0cfc5e188bba77905a150b2aa-2048x1536.jpg?w=900&auto=format)
Kibo is a humanoid robot with an expressive, cartoonish face. It navigates on its own, understands spoken commands, and likes to give hugs with every one of its 43 degrees of freedom.
- Creator
- Year
- 2011
- Country
- South Korea 🇰🇷
- Categories
- Features
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Did you know?
To navigate, Kibo uses a special camera that looks for identifiable patterns on the ceiling above it.
![Side view of Kibo shows it's backpack, legs, arms, and face behind a clear cover.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/7p2whiua/production/504d241e5e5c44047de6e1ac0b3d01046b0c8b37-2048x1536.jpg?w=900&auto=format)
![Rear view of the robot shows its power backpack.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/7p2whiua/production/d0bfd643bc29b92dd0668782026aca5404f0a26b-2048x1536.jpg?w=900&auto=format)
Specs
- Overview
Capable of showing a variety of facial expressions and lip-syncing tunes. Able to recognize faces and objects.
- Status
Ongoing
- Year
2011
- Website
- Width
- 48 cm
- Height
- 120 cm
- Length
- 300 cm
- Weight
- 42 kg
- Speed
- 0.54 km/h
- Sensors
Stereo cameras, ultrasonic sensors, six-axis force-torque sensors in the feet, three-axis inertial sensor, Microsoft Kinect, microphones.
- Actuators
Faulhaber DC motors, harmonic drive, and belt pulley.
- Degrees of Freedom (DoF)
- 44 (Head and Face: 17 DoF; Arms: 6 DoF x 2; Hands: 1 DoF x 2; Waist: 1 DoF; Legs: 6 DoF x 2)
- Compute
Intel Core2 embedded PC
- Software
Linux OS with RTAI
- Power
Battery, 30 minutes of operation
- Cost
- $270,000 (only for hardware; $9 million for R&D)