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| The combined Virginia Tech and University of Pennsylvania teams for CHARLI and DARwIn. |
Team DARwIn is a joint venture between Virginia Tech’s
Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory and the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP
laboratory.
It is the second year in a row that RoMeLa has used and won with theDARwIn-OP soccer-playing humanoid robots developed together with Purdue Univ., Univ. Penn, and ROBOTIS Co. sponsored by NSF. About 400 units are currently being used world-wide for robotics research and education.
A total of eight teams at this year’s RoboCup competition used the OP ’bots, which are now open-sourced and also available for purchase. It is a fully open source design -- both software and hardware. All info on the hardware is to be shared on-line for free, including detailed plans and drawings, manuals for fabrication and assembly.
It is the second year in a row that RoMeLa has used and won with theDARwIn-OP soccer-playing humanoid robots developed together with Purdue Univ., Univ. Penn, and ROBOTIS Co. sponsored by NSF. About 400 units are currently being used world-wide for robotics research and education.
A total of eight teams at this year’s RoboCup competition used the OP ’bots, which are now open-sourced and also available for purchase. It is a fully open source design -- both software and hardware. All info on the hardware is to be shared on-line for free, including detailed plans and drawings, manuals for fabrication and assembly.
Under director and founder Dennis Hong, RoMeLA started
project DARwIn (that’s Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligent) in 2003
to study human locomotion and humanoid robot design. DARwIn 1 was introduced in
2004 and was a revolutionary humanoid robot prototype at the time, and was
followed by several incarnations since.
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