Rosie
![A vertical rectangular box on wheels supports two industrial orange arms and hands with four fingers. The robots head is composed of cameras and a sensor bar.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/7p2whiua/production/d7cbbfd060ba5d4b9f012139d3b4e36af4807756-2048x1536.jpg?rect=523,0,1017,1536&w=900&auto=format)
Rosie is a research robot that has four-fingered hands, an omnidirectional mobile base, and a wide variety of sensors. It's designed to undertake many of the household chores that humans hate to do.
- Creator
- Year
- 2009
- Country
- Germany 🇩🇪
- Categories
- Features
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Did you know?
Rosie knows how to autonomously make pancakes and sausages.
![A robot with two advanced industrial arms pours batter onto a hotplate with one four fingered hand, and holds a spatula with the other.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/7p2whiua/production/a53aebdb04ee49593faa220fe3ac41a662dcbb76-2048x1536.jpg?w=900&auto=format)
![A robot with two advanced industrial arms uses kitchen tools to place four sausages into a bowl.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/7p2whiua/production/bf41c8e953762ba3b3adc2508a414e6e42561770-2048x1536.jpg?w=900&auto=format)
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![The robot stands in the kitchen over a hot pot. One hand holds a ladle. There is a plate of food on the counter.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/7p2whiua/production/7de396421b8b0855bbac3de90266ea3922af431c-2048x1536.jpg?w=900&auto=format)
Specs
- Overview
Design based on commercially available industrial and research components. Equipped with compliant arms and hands. Realistic kitchen lab included.
- Status
Inactive
- Year
2009
- Website
- Width
- 70 cm
- Height
- 190 cm
- Length
- 90 cm
- Weight
- 300 kg
- Speed
- 7.2 km/h
- Sensors
Two high-resolution cameras, thermal camera, three laser scanners, mini cameras in the fingertips, Microsoft Kinect.
- Actuators
Two DLR-Kuka LWR arms with DLR-HIT hands.
- Degrees of Freedom (DoF)
- 45 (Arm: 7 DoF x 2; Hand: 13 DoF x 2; Head: 2 DoF; Base: 3 DoF)
- Materials
Carbon fiber, aluminum, 3D-printed parts.
- Compute
Two PCs each with two Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz CPUs and 12 GB RAM.
- Software
CRAM (Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine) and CogMan (Cognitive Manipulation) software platforms.
- Power
48-V 110-Ah lead-acid batteries
- Cost
- Priceless (as reported by the robot's creators)