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Myon


This is a new humanoid robot made ​​by the German industrial design company Frackenpohl Poulheim for Neurorobotics Research Laboratory at Humboldt University of Berlin. The name of this robot is Myon, was one of five versions of the modular project (Artificial Language Evolution on Autonomous Robots) ALEAR's robot series "M", which is used to study cognition and language acquisition and the formation of a robot agent. This robot consists of 6 parts (head, torso, arms, and legs) in a 
completely modular. Each has its own power supply, processing power, and a neural network which connects an individual basis. Allowing certain parts of modularity can still move even though the other did not work.

This robot uses material type of Bayer MaterialScience Makrolon polycarbonate material used to form this protective exoskeleton Myon. This robot has a built-in touch screen on its chest. He stands 125cm (4 ') tall, weighs 15kg (33 lbs), has 48 degrees of freedom, 35 torsion springs for biological motion, and 192 sensors. This is shown in the DMY International Design Festival Berlin 2010.

Myon designed to appear friendly, has the posture of roughly the same height as an 8 year old boy. One aspect of design that does not sit well with me is cyclopsian eye, which does not make sense in light of the humanoid body. Having two eyes not only make the look more friendly and aesthetic, but also will provide stereoscopic vision of robots that can be used for various things, including depth perception. That said, Myon modular nature means that a new head (and hands more naturally) can be swapped in and out if they feel the need for it.