News: Linux robot man treks into Europe

By Graeme Wearden

ZDNet (UK)

October 25, 2001 8:09 AM PT

Japanese scientists are planning to demonstrate a walking, Linux-operated, humanoid robot at an open source event in Italy next month.

The bipedal H7 robot is around 137cm tall (54 inches), and weighs 55kg (121 pounds). It has 36 joints–or “degrees of freedom”–which H7’s developers claim means it has full body motion. An onboard computer, built around two Pentium III 750MHz processors, runs the RT-Linux operating system.

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