What is the purpose of an anthropomorphic robot?

This question is often asked. And I want to answer the following: whatever you want. The robot can act as a kind of "promoter". Let's say he can stand at the stand and hand out business cards, or other promo, thereby attracting the attention of people.

This I answered, and now to reality. The most important thing here is to make a "doll" with a computer and drives for which various purposes and functions are already invented. 

And the first pitfall is the rope of chaotic wires that pull from each servo. Such a web makes it difficult to transport the robot and try to program it to move computer engineer description. 

Just wrapped in wires And these are only servos, without sensors, sensors and other electronics

Everyone understood this when they hooked up and forced the robot to at least stand.angry

The solution to the problems turned out to be in the ID servos, which can easily and easily connect to each other and have their own unique ID. The output is just a thin wire for power supply and control of all drives

Replacing the servos and modifying the case prompted the launch of a fundraising project for a new filling. Detailed description here

More interested in further problems, to anticipate them.

For example, is it better to have one cool control computer, or to divide all nodes into lower-level controllers and manage them faster?

How will the robot's comfort zone be organized so that when the hand of a person who wants to touch it approaches, it leans back and turns on an evil melody?

And the most important task that always creates inconveniences is the power solution. The current capabilities only allow us to make a frame to support the robot and bring out the power wire from it along the top.

Of course, it's worth reworking the framework itself. Make it lighter, as the weight is quite significant. 

Well, an interesting riddle for an engineer is how to achieve the amplitude of movement of the hip joint? How to manage this in order to write pirouettes, balance, sharply expose your leg so as not to fall? Mechanics, hydraulics, soft robot technology?

Simple mechanics with a small number of degrees of freedom looks like in the picture below. That is why robots have such a special gait. Everything is too limited and muddy

It is very curious to see how the guys from Boston Dynamics implemented the mechanics of a two-legged robot. It is clear that there are millions of dollars of investments, where we have to get them with our plywood robot, but it's so interesting when programming goes beyond the computer and allows you to interact with the outside world!