Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Ryuma Ujino

Hiroaki Ono

Takahide Yoshiike

Susumu Miyazaki

Hironori Waita

Minami Asatani

Takashi Nakayama

Masao Kanazawa

Satoshi Kaneko

Takuro Koyanagi

Yasuhiro Yamasaki

An arm link () is rotatably coupled to an upper base body () around a yaw axis through a shoulder joint mechanism (). A fulcrum P of rotation of the arm link () is located within a range of widths of the upper base body () in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction of the upper base body ().

Robot having a base body, a shoulder joint mechanism assembly, and a movable link coupled to the base body through the shoulder joint mechanism assembly

An environment recognition unit () includes a frame (), cameras () arranged on a front side in the frame (), a camera control circuit () disposed on a back side in the frame (), a pair of LRFs () arranged laterally to the frame (). The frame () includes a first duct () provided adjacent to the camera control circuit (), and a second duct () provided adjacent to the cameras ().

Environment recognition unit and robot

A charging system is capable of charging a battery of a biped walking robot while stabilizing the posture of the biped walking robot and also restraining the occurrence of spark discharge or noises. A charger of the charging system for charging the battery provided in the biped walking robot includes a seating and retaining unit for retaining the biped walking robot in a seated posture, a power feeding connector that is fitted to a power receiving connector provided in the biped walking robot when the biped walking robot sits on the seating and retaining unit, and a charging unit having a connection detector for detecting whether the power receiving connector and the power feeding connector are in a connected state, a charging power source for supplying charging current to the battery, and a charging controller that supplies charging current to the battery from the charging power source to charge the battery when the connection detector detects that the power receiving connector and the power feeding connector are in the connected state.

Charging system of biped walking robot

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Saitama, Japan

Ryuma Ujino