NimbRo-OP2X: Adult-sized Open-source 3D Printed Humanoid Robot
This provides a safe, affordable, and open-source platform for humanoid robotics research, addressing a bottleneck in the field.
The researchers tackled the lack of accessible, advanced humanoid robot platforms by developing NimbRo-OP2X, an adult-sized open-source 3D printed robot, which won all possible awards at RoboCup 2018 in the Humanoid AdultSize class.
Humanoid robotics research depends on capable robot platforms, but recently developed advanced platforms are often not available to other research groups, expensive, dangerous to operate, or closed-source. The lack of available platforms forces researchers to work with smaller robots, which have less strict dynamic constraints or with simulations, which lack many real-world effects. We developed NimbRo-OP2X to address this need. At a height of 135 cm our robot is large enough to interact in a human environment. Its low weight of only 19 kg makes the operation of the robot safe and easy, as no special operational equipment is necessary. Our robot is equipped with a fast onboard computer and a GPU to accelerate parallel computations. We extend our already open-source software by a deep-learning based vision system and gait parameter optimisation. The NimbRo-OP2X was evaluated during RoboCup 2018 in Montréal, Canada, where it won all possible awards in the Humanoid AdultSize class.