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AILA

AILA is a humanoid robot used by researchers to study mobile manipulation, robot perception, and AI. She's learning to perform tasks in human environments and training to become an astronaut.

FEATURES

Equipped with a six-wheel mobile base. Able to create maps and navigate autonomously. Lightweight arm able to lift up to 8 kg (17.6 lb).

HEIGHT

173 cm | 68 in (including mobile base)

LENGTH

115 cm | 45.3 in

WIDTH

75 cm | 29.5 in

WEIGHT

97 kg | 214 lb

SPEED

8 km/h | 5 mph

SENSORS

Head with two cameras. Torso with short-range laser scanner and 3D time-of-flight camera. Arms with two six-axis force/torque sensors. Hands with tactile sensors. Mobile base with two long-range laser scanners.

ACTUATORS

14 brushless DC motors for the arms, 4 linear dc motors for the torso, 12 motors on the wheels, 2 servos for the head.

POWER

48-V 4.5-Ah nickel-metal hydride battery, 0.5 hour of operation.

COMPUTING

Three embedded PCs with dual core CPUs for motion control, navigation, and vision processing. Each arm joint with custom FPGA-based controllers.

SOFTWARE

Linux OS and custom software based on ROS (communication layer), ROCK (middle layer), and Roby (high level).

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOF)

50 (Head: 2 DoF; Arm: 7 DoF x 2; Hand: 9 active DoF x 2; Torso: 4 DoF; Mobile base: 12 DoF)

MATERIALS

Carbon fiber, aluminum, steel.

COST

N/A

STATUS

Ongoing

WEBSITE

http://robotik.dfki-bremen.de/en/research/robot-systems/aila-1.html



CREATOR

DFKI Robotics Innovation Center

COUNTRY

Germany

Year

2010

Type

Humanoids, Research

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AILA stands for Artificial Intelligence Lightweight Android.

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AILA's mobile base is in fact an autonomous robot of its own.

HISTORY



Frank Kirchner started building legged robots as a tool to study machine learning and artificial intelligence in the 1990s, first as a researcher at the University of Bonn, Germany, and later at Northeastern University, in the United States. Now the head of the Robotics Innovation Center at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kirchner created the humanoid AILA to investigate robotics control, cognition, and learning in real-world environments. The goal is to use AILA to explore systems with increasing complexity, in terms of both mechanisms and algorithms. Among the upgrades planned for AILA is giving it something it still doesn't have: a pair of legs.