News Archive (1999-2012) | 2013-current at LinuxGizmos | Current Tech News Portal |    About   

Meet Isamu, the humanoid robot (with RTLinux inside)

Jul 20, 2001 — by Rick Lehrbaum — from the LinuxDevices Archive — 2 views

LinuxDevices.com takes a look at Isamu, a humanoid robot.

Isamu stands 53 inches tall, weighs 121 pounds, and walks at over one mile per hour. Not only that, Isamu climbs up and down stairs, carries 4-pound objects in its hand-like grippers, and even recognizes human faces via its dual-camera stereo vision system.

Oh, and Isamu has a “brain” that consists of a dual-Pentium computer running RTLinux.

Read full story

 
This article was originally published on LinuxDevices.com and has been donated to the open source community by QuinStreet Inc. Please visit LinuxToday.com for up-to-date news and articles about Linux and open source.



Comments are closed.