Cody: Humanoid Mobile Manipulating Robot

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 18 of March , 2010 at 4:16 am

This robot is named Cody, and he’s from the Georgia Tech’s Healthcare Robotics Lab. I don’t know why the robot is called Cody… It kinda seems like it should stand for something. You know, as in, C.O.D.Y. Anybody got anything? No? Okay then.

Anyway.

Cody is sporting one of those Segway RMP bases with the nifty Mecanum-type omnidirectional wheels. The vertical axis is taken care of by a linear actuator, and Cody has a pair of 7 DOF arms that are able to open things like doors, cabinets, and drawers.

While the capabilities of the arms are certainly impressive, I especially like the intuitive way that Cody can be led around by hand:

It’s way easier than using a gamepad controller, and much more precise than vocal control, minimizing the operator learning curve without sacrificing capabilities. Most of Cody’s code is compatible with ROS, which (ideally) makes it simple for other mobile robot developers to use the clever bits of code that were written to make Cody so intuitive to control.

[ Georgia Tech Healthcare Robotics Lab ] VIA [ Hizook ]

Thanks Travis!

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