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Now more than ever, it’s the era of DIY humanoid robotics. Humanoids have long been the intricate and expensive domain of well-funded research labs, marching onto stages to demonstrate corporate and institutional engineering prowess. While the desire to build man-mimicking replicas is steeped in history, these advanced machines only started taking actual, functional form in the 1970s; the most famous of these, Honda’s ASIMO, launched just 15 years ago.
Fast-forward to 2015. Rising to the complex challenge of combining mechanics, electronics, and software, robotics hobbyists have made enormous progress in their basements and garages, and we’re now seeing impressive community-driven humanoid bots that come at a fraction of the price of their professional cousins.
In Make: Volume 45 we dive into how makers worldwide are contributing to the advancement of one such project, InMoov, that combines 3D-printable parts, common electronic components, and open-source plans into a showstopping creation that responds to vocal commands with speech and movement.
We also show you how to make an autonomously navigating, self-balancing robot; a tensegrity vibrobot that introduces the concepts of cutting-edge robotics research; and a wonderfully simple “jamming” gripper that eliminates many of the shortcomings of mechanical hands.