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Beyond Wheels: Designing and Building a Walking/Bipedal Robot, KEYi Technology

Energy-Aware Sensor Fusion Architecture for Autonomous Channel Robot Navigation in Constrained Environments, MDPI sensors

Enhancing Human–Robot Collaboration through a Multi-Module Interaction Framework with Sensor Fusion: Object Recognition, Verbal Communication, User of Interest Detection, Gesture and Gaze Recognition, MDPI sensors

Humanoid Factors: Design Principles for AI Humanoids in Human Worlds, arXiv

Humanoid Robot Reference Guide, STMicroelectronics

Multi-Sensor Data Fusion and CNN-LSTM Model for Human Activity Recognition System, MDPI sensors

Recent Advancements in Humanoid Robot Heads: Mechanics, Perception, and Computational Systems, MDPI biomimetics ### Morphological computations

The use of hands, in place of less capable end-effectors, is a key for deployment of advanced humanoids. Wrist and finger touch (tactile force) sensors can be fused with visual information from RGB cameras to identify and safely grasp and manipulate even fragile objects. Development of simplified methods is being pursued.

Figure 3. Multi-material 3D printed compliant hand. (Image: Soft Robotics Lab)

For example, a prototype was fabricated using multi-material 3D printing. Compliant materials were used for the sensors and joints, but a rigid material was used for the “bones” to provide support. Safety meets speeds: how next-gen sensors free robots from cages, imec

Soft Robotic Hand with Tactile Sensing, Oxford Robotics Institute

The Humanoid Robotics Nervous System: Perception, Balance, and Real-Time Control, Panasonic

What Is Morphological Computation? On How the Body Contributes to Cognition and Control, MIT