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Upright: A Field Guide to Humanoid Robots
An independent, illustrated-in-words guide to how humanoid robots work, who is building them, where they are being deployed, and what remains difficult.
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Upright structures its material as a compact technical field guide, moving from the case for human-shaped machines through anatomy, manufacturers, history, applications, and unresolved problems. Its reference frame is usefully concrete: indicative platforms stand 1.3–1.8 metres tall, offer 20–50+ degrees of freedom, and run for roughly 2–5 hours per charge. The anatomy section breaks the subject into six systems, including perception, actuation, manipulation, locomotion, and balance, while acknowledging that wheels may be preferable on structured sites.
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