Robots & Design

Design plays a fundamental role in engineering and how well its solutions can be implemented in the real world. Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado Ph.D.

  • Low-cost humanoid
  • Low-cost humanoid
  • Low-cost humanoid

Low-cost humanoid

A 1 meter tall humanoid (legs not shown). Shoulders and waist use cable differential drives. The torso has a total of 16 DOFs:

  • 5 DOFs on each arm (excluding grippers)
  • 2 DOFs at the waist
  • 4 DOFs at the head and neck

The only ferrous components are the servomotors.

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I design simple and elegant mechanisms that exploit natural phenomena to achieve their function by drawing inspiration from nature and a deep understanding of the physics of a problem.