Musculoskeletal design, control, and application of human mimetic humanoid Kenshiro

We have been developing a human mimetic musculoskeletal humanoid called Kenshiro, whose design
concept is to thoroughly pursue an unprecedented anatomical fidelity to the human musculoskeletal
structure. We believe that research on human mimetic musculoskeletal humanoids advances our
understanding of humans and expands the applications of humanoids —such as a human body simulator
that can quantitatively analyze internal human motion data. This paper describes Kenshiro ’s
musculoskeletal body characteristics, software system, and preliminary experiments explaining the
concept of potential application.

Source: Bioinspiration and Biomimetics - April 6, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Yuki Asano, Kei Okada and Masayuki Inaba Source Type: research