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An epoch of humanoid robotics started from the astonishing reveal of Honda P2 in 1996, and the focus of interest in the field has been the motion control of humanoid robots as well as the development of the hardware in the beginning of the decade. A reliable hardware with the minimum level of the mobility can be a research platform of humanoid robotics as well as mobile robot platforms like Nomad. Several research platforms are available currently including HRP-2 with software platform OpenHRP and HOAP series, and the interests in humanoid robotics can spread over various topics; that is, intelligence, interactions with humans and a tool of cognitive science. The state of the art of humanoid robotics has arrived at the level of the beginning of mobile robot technologies in 1980s, and every aspect of robotics is now expected to be integrated on humanoid robots.
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Hirukawa, H. (2007). Session Overview Humanoids. In: Thrun, S., Brooks, R., Durrant-Whyte, H. (eds) Robotics Research. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48113-3_9
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