Humanoid Robot

A Humanoid Robot is a robot with a frame that resembles a human body (with two legs and two arms).

Context:
- It can range from being a Lifelike Android to being a Non-Lifelife Android.
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Example(s):
- a Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories Robot.
- a Hanson Robotics Sophia Robot (first activated on 19 April 2015 and uses "Character Engine AI" software)
- an ASIMO Robot.
- a Commander Data.
- a C3PO Robot.
- a Jetson's Rosie Robot.
- a Pepper (Robot).
- an Atlas (Robot).
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Counter-Example(s):
- an R2D2 Robot.
- an AIBO Robot.
- a HAL-9000 Robot.
See: Human Body.

References

(Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/humanoid_robot Retrieved:2014-1-20.
- A humanoid robot is a robot with its body shape built to resemble that of the human body. A humanoid design might be for functional purposes, such as interacting with human tools and environments, for experimental purposes, such as the study of bipedal locomotion, or for other purposes. In general, humanoid robots have a torso, a head, two arms, and two legs, though some forms of humanoid robots may model only part of the body, for example, from the waist up. Some humanoid robots may also have heads designed to replicate human facial features such as eyes and mouths. Androids are humanoid robots built to aesthetically resemble humans.

(Moravec, 1988) ⇒ Hans Moravec. (1988). “Mind Children." Harvard University Press. ISBN:9780674576186
- QUOTE: … unfortunately for humanlike robots, computers are at their worst trying to do the things most natural to humans, such as seeing, hearing, manipulating objects, learning languages, and commonsense reasoning. This dichotomy - machines doing well things human find hard, while doing poorly what is easy for us - is a giant clue to the problem of how to construct an intelligent machine ...