News: Linux robot man treks into Europe
By Graeme Wearden
ZDNet (UK)
October 25, 2001 8:09 AM PT
Japanese scientists are planning to demonstrate a walking, Linux-operated, humanoid robot at an open source event in Italy next month.
The bipedal H7 robot is around 137cm tall (54 inches), and weighs 55kg (121 pounds). It has 36 joints--or "degrees of freedom"--which H7's developers claim means it has full body motion. An onboard computer, built around two Pentium III 750MHz processors, runs the RT-Linux operating system.
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