Archie (robot) (original) (raw)

Archie is a humanoid robot, developed in TU Wien (TUW) in Austria and University of Manitoba in Canada. The development of Archie started in 2004 at the (IHRT) under supervision of Professor . Archie is in class a Teen size Humanoid and is over 120 cm tall. Lower body of Archie is designed and driven using brushless motors that are able to provide 50 Nm moment after the gearbox output. For Archie's joints Harmonic drives are employed in order to decreasing the size of the design and increasing the efficiency of the Robot. Each joint is controller individually and can provide a high performance motion control. All the joints are connected to unit using a customized high speed network. Archie's central controller unit is called Spinal system which is designed to control the whole robot as