ROBOTICS HAND
https://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2021/06/robot-hand-for-human-or-android.html

ABOVE: The robotic hand is in the process of grabbing and removing technical laser equipment from navigational aerospace systems created for SPACE1 Industries. The robotic hand is capable of extending reach into relatively inaccessible places and places beyond the reach of humans, for example on high shelves.

Developing a Low Cost Robotic Hand for a Big Brain, Robot, Human, Humanoid or Android

We took this China cybernetics robot hand toy and reworked it into a master hand for humans or androids by adding functions and developing techniques for using it in a variety of conditions

The poly construction robot hand has five digits including one opposable thumb. The fingers are controlled with a metal steel linkage that allows the hand to close the fingers at will to pick up things. Each finger has four bendable sections with the fingertips having attached rubber grommets for increasing tactile engagements. The opposable thumb is static and stationary without movement. 

The lightweight robot hand is easy to use and only costs about US$3.00 plus shipping. It's spectacular in functions and can pick up most mid sized and mid weight objects easily. The real value comes in using it for useful real world applications and having fun. The hand is manufactured and shipped from China. The unit is overall portable and easily carried around and transported. Warning: as with human arms, the robotics arm has similar limitations - do not try to pick up excessively heavy items or the mechanism may be strained and exceeded.

Robot Hand Dimensions & Specifications

Description - Robot Claw Hand

Function -  Handy Tool for grabbing objects in  hard to reach places

Cost - US$3.00

Material - Polymer with steel linkage and rubber pads on fingertips

Width of Palm above Thumb - 7cm

Palm Measured from Thumb - 4cm

Total Arm Length - 55cm

Width of Gripper - 9cm

Inside Gripper Space - 6.6cm

Linkage - Steel

Finish - Metal Hand, Black Arm, Yellow Gripper

Type of Gripper - Spring Return Trigger

Portable and lightweight

Place of Manufacture - China

Rating - Highly recommended

Function List

* Handicapped applications

* Retrieving objects in hard to reach places

* Restoring additional mobility to the human body

* Grabbing objects without body movement

* Hand enabler on humans, robots, androids, humanoids

* Add a full 55cm to your arm length

* Grab objects on a high shelf

* Developing hand eye coordination

Adding Applications to the Robotic Hand

The robotic hand will generally pick up medium size and weight objects, however this can be greatly extended.

* To pick up much smaller objects, use the hand to slide the object to an opposing wall or object and scoop it up.

* To pick up objects much smaller that set flat on a table or the floor, attach with medical tape a series of woman's artificial fingernails. This will allow prying under the object and make it more easy to pick up very small flat objects and coins. A beauty store has any number of fingernail varieties for sale. Strengthen the artificial fingernails by applying a layer of metal tint fingernail polish. Given the high cost of beauty products, fabricate your own fingernails using a thin sheet of plastic and sheen cardboard, cut to fit.

* Keep the robotics arm by the bedstead hanging on a S hook where is can readily be grabbed and held as a convenient attachment to the human body

TH1 Humanoid

TH1 Bipedal Humanoid Robot built by
Humanoido

Head movement for eye tracking with a PING
ultrasonic sensor

TH1 Humanoid

Designed & Built by Humanoido

From 2006, TH1 Bipedal Humanoid is a robotics creation by Humanoido. He has two arms, scanning head with ultrasonic eyes that offer night vision, two processors, two walking legs, feet and a torso. 

I'd like to show my latest creation - a humanoid Toddler. This is a modified version of the original Toddler Robot from a Parallax kit of parts. For more information, there's a tech group for toddler type walking robots at the link below.

Humanoid Toddler started out as just a pair of legs - a biped walking robot. It's one of the most simple walking mechanisms with only 2 servos. This version is powered by batteries placed in the legs and a Parallax servo controller. Other versions use various incarnations of the Basic Stamp microcontroller and software code written in PBASIC.

Size comparison with a Parallax
Penguin robot

Also added to the humanoid conversion: extra servos, torso, head and arms. A Ping))) ultrasonic vision sensor was added on the head and is controlled with a BS2 microcontroller.

Showing the range of the
outstretched arms

The newest and latest walking robot from Parallax is the Penguin Robot, which uses the same walking design as seen in the two photos at left. There's an entire family of toddle type robots. If you don't believe me, just ask Ken Gracey or David Buckley. They've spent years, even decades inventing and developing robots of this design.

Upgraded TH1 is spectacular in functions

Seen here in front of Humanoid Toddler Robot, a very tiny Penguin bot sports a compass, two IR eyes, two photodetectors to sense light levels, expansion slot, an IR transmitter, a blue segment display, and one of the most powerful Basic Stamp MCUs in the series, the BS2px.

Human Toddler Robot V1.0

I have also written and posted 281 software programs for the Penguin Robot, free for anyone to use. Download at the Parallax Forum.

Size & Parts
It stands taller than a Robonova so it has a good size. No vids yet, only photos. The stock parts which comprise the biped section of the humanoid are precision-manufactured metal parts. The parts which comprise the humanoid section are scrounged materials from various local sources.

The bearings for the quad-servo-core (QSC) are cut from acrylic and Pexiglas. The mounts, bolts, nuts are all light weight nylon and the head and arms are molded and cut from a polypropylene material. Washers are phenolic. The humanoid section had to be the lightest possible weight due to the additional weight added by four more servos. The humanoid has a total of six servos. The light weight makes it possible to use common low cost standard Futaba servos that have model airplane ratings.

Another nice feature about Humanoid Toddler is that programming the motions is very easy and can happen in real time graphics over the USB cable and a portable computer. You just move a slider one direction or another for each of the 8 motors and set the position. This can be controlled in one of two ways - either with the servo controller in animatronic mode or the servo controller under control of the Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller. The BS2 MCU can also handle the Ultrasonic vision sensor, infrared transmitter and receivers, photodectectors, and other sensors, as a result of the servo controllers serial interface taking up only one port. In the prototype BS2 MCU version, there's a 2-line serial display, tiny keyboard, memory expansion card, decoder, reset, and additional sensors.

SSC Programming
It uses SSC programming code to position the servos and can be programmed for specific movements. Primary feature is the quad servo core.

QSC Quad Servo Core
The QSC Quad Servo Core is invented by humanoido, for simple construction. The humanoid has 6 DOF degrees of freedom, walking with two servos. One servo moves the head side to side for vision, two servos move the arms, and one moves the torso.

Levels
This version is Level I with two processors installed. This is the rare gold humanoid everyone is talking about at the Lab.

Potential Kit
TH1 is designed as a kit but there is only serial number one, a single item, making it very valuable to the collector.

Functions
The thick printed manual has many resources listed for applications and ideas to include languages, choreography, day and night security, signaling, martial arts, robo-chi, aerobics instructor, walking and dancing. Designed for education and experimenters.

Construction & Operations
He has a 16-inch reach and uses nylon bearings for torso movements from side to side. Using the serial servo controller, sliders on the computer are moved to make corresponding moves with the servos. It uses capture motion to capture, edit and playback sequences.

Toddler Humanoid Robots
https://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2012/09/toddler-humanoidlevel-1-construction.html
Humanoid Toddler at Robosavvy
https://robosavvy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2423&highlight=toddler
Rare Gold Humanoid Robot
https://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2013/09/rare-toddler-humanoid-robot.html
Parallax
http://www.parallax.com/
Yahoo Toddler Group
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/toddler_robot/

1st Humanoid Robots Web Site

THE FIRST HUMANOID ROBOTS WEB SITE
It's a humorous story. Humanoido created the current Humanoid Robots web site and while doing a Google search, a web site came up with the exact same name. Not only the same name, but it appeared to have wording that copied the new site! Who copied the web site in exact detail? This was very disconcerting until closer inspection revealed some interesting facts. The name of the creator was Humanoido. Who could have the exact same name?

Actually, this web site was the first one created February, in the year 2007 by Humanoido, but later abandoned, probably because of a lost password.

http://humanoidlabs.blogspot.tw/