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This article addresses the development of a humanoid robot named Saika and skillful manipulations performed by Saika. The developed humanoid robot Saika has a two-DOF neck, dual five-DOF upper arms, a torso and a head which consists of two eyes and two ears. Saika has humansize dimension and weighs eight kilograms. This article also presents three kinds of manipulations performed by Saika: (1) hitting a bounding ball, (2) grasping unknown objects by groping and (3) catching a thrown ball. Those tasks are chosen to study behavior-based movement control and intelligence.
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Konno, A. et al. (1998). Dexterous manipulations of humanoid Robot Saika . In: Casals, A., de Almeida, A.T. (eds) Experimental Robotics V. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 232. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0112952
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