BabyBot is a humanoid robot built to mimic a 1-year old child, which developed by KIST’s Biomimetic Robotics Lab. It had limited speech recognition, and image processing capabilities based on a unique vision system that had a higher resolution in the center of the image and a lower resolution for the outer edges.
The BabyBot system was designed to mimic the way our eyes work by focusing on what is being directly looked at. The researchers hypothesized that a such a system could reduce the image data processing speed to a 10th of its normal rate. The robot was able to walk and could perform a dance.
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The original BabyBot is 75cm (30″) tall, weighs 15kg (33 lbs), and has 24 degrees of freedom (2 legs x6, 2 arms x5, neck x2). In 2003, they created a refined version of the robot called BabyBot-R which weighs less than 10kg (22 lbs) including its battery. A few videos and photos follow after the break.
Developer: KIST’s Biomimetic Robotics Lab
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