2400074 – Robotics II: Humanoid Robotics
The lecture presents current work in the field of humanoid robotics, which deals with the implementation of complex sensorimotor and cognitive abilities. Various methods and algorithm, their advantages and disadvantages, as well as the current state of research are discussed.
The following topics are covered: Applications and real world examples of humanoid robots; biomechanical models of the human body, biologically inspired and data-driven methods of grasping, imitation learning and programming by demonstration; semantic representations of sensorimotor experience as well as cognitive software architectures of humanoid robots.