Key Steps Toward Development of Humanoid Robots

Abstract

This paper addresses the question of how to develop humanoid robots which could demonstrate human-like skills and human-like intelligence. Traditionally, the answer to such question includes the keywords such as design, analysis, sensing, perception, planning, control, actuation, etc. In this paper, the attempt is to make a comparison between human beings and humanoid robots. Particularly, the body-brain-mind model is adopted in order to better represent the skill-related and intelligence-related aspects of human beings. In this way, the key steps toward development of humanoid robots are explained according to body-brain-mind model, in which the material flow, the energy flow, the signal flow, the motion flow, and the knowledge flow could be easily understood. The extra benefit of such clearer explanation is to enable us to identify remaining challenges faced by the development of humanoid robots. Also, the well-designed invention of human-like humanoid robots will help us to discover the secrets behind the mind of human beings.