Yuto Nakanishi and researchers at University of Tokyo, developed Kenshiro a Musculoskeletal Humanoid who has muscle and bones

Researchers at the University of Tokyo are taking bio-inspired robots to new heights with Kenshiro, their new human-like musculoskeletal robot revealed at the Humanoids conference this month. They have added more muscles and more motors to their Kojiro robot from 2010, making Kenshiro’s underlying structure the closest to a human’s form so far. See the new body in the picture above.

The ‘bot, which is a followup to 2010’s Kojiro model, which was developed by Yuto Nakanishi and a team of researchers at University of Tokyo, making its public debut at the recent Humanoids conference in Osaka.

Kenshiro mimics the body of the average Japanese 12-year-old male, standing at 158 centimeters tall and weighing 50 kilograms (stands about 5’1 and weighs around 110 pounds). Kenshiro’s body mirrors almost all the major muscles in a human, with 160 pulley-like “muscles”—50 in the legs, 76 in the trunk, 12 in the shoulder, and 22 in the neck. It has the most muscles of any other bio-inspired humanoid out there.

Check out the video: a headless and armless Kenshiro does squats, looking uncanny enough to give you the shivers.

 

 

 

Source : University of Tokyo

Via : Phys Org