HumanPlus robot can go from playing piano to ping-pong to boxing
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Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson discusses how Stanford’s HumanPlus robot learns tasks by watching humans.
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Built on Unitree's H1 robot base, with hands from Inspire-Robots and custom wrists, HumanPlus stands 5 feet 9 inches tall. It features a 6-DoF (degrees of freedom) hand, which includes one degree of freedom for each of the index, middle, ring and little fingers, plus two degrees of freedom for the thumb. This configuration allows for complex hand movements and manipulations.
The robot also has a 1-DoF wrist, which means it can rotate in one plane, likely allowing for up and down or side-to-side movement, calculated using the relative rotation between the forearm and hand global orientations.
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