KIT · Humanoid · 2018
ARMAR-6, from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's High Performance Humanoid Technologies (H2T) lab led by Tamim Asfour, is a high-performance collaborative research humanoid built for human-robot collaboration in real-world scenarios — famously demonstrated proactively assisting maintenance workers, recognising when a coworker needs a tool and handing it over. It's a torque-controlled humanoid upper body with dexterous five-finger hands, a stereo/RGB-D perception head and force-torque sensing, mounted on a wheeled mobile platform, and it runs on KIT's ArmarX robot software framework for perception, grasp and manipulation planning. ARMAR-6 is the latest widely-published member of the long-running Karlsruhe ARMAR humanoid family, which also includes the earlier ARMAR-III and the 63-DOF torque-controlled biped ARMAR-4. NOTE: ARMAR-6's exact per-limb DOF and mass aren't uniformly published across sources; core configuration and capabilities are verified from KIT/ARMAR-6 papers (the ICRA/Humanoids literature) — figures flagged where they vary rather than guessed.
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View full interactive profile, comparisons & videos →| Category | Humanoid |
| Sub-type | Collaborative Wheeled Maintenance Humanoid |
| Status | Active |
| Year | 2018 |
| Origin | Germany |
| Announced | 2018 |
| Released | 2018 |
| Weight | 160 kg |
| Degrees of freedom | 27 |
| Payload | 10 kg |
| Reach | 1000 mm |
| Camera | Stereo vision (grasping, activity recognition) |
| AI model | ArmarX; scene understanding + human perception, proactive help recognition, natural-language interaction/dialog, autonomous maintenance-task execution, learning from human observation |
| Operating system | ArmarX software framework |
| Actuator type | Encapsulated Sensor-Actuator-Controller (SAC) units - motor + reduction gear + sensors + electronics + controller; slip rings for continuous joint rotation; torque-controlled; telescopic torso |
| Use cases | Human-robot collaboration research, Industrial maintenance assistance, Bimanual manipulation research |
| Made in | Germany |
