Torobo

Canonical robot record

Overview

Torobo is a humanoid robot from Tokyo Robotics, a Japanese company fully owned by Yaskawa Electric, designed for machine-learning research and for automating tasks that require active physical contact with objects or the surrounding environment. The robot is built at roughly human scale and mounted on an omni-directional mobile base, giving it a range of motion comparable to a person working in everyday living and working spaces.

The defining feature of Torobo is torque sensing at every joint of its arms and waist, which enables joint torque control for safe contact stops and force-controlled manipulation. This makes it suited to assembly, cooking, and other contact-rich tasks, as well as safer physical interaction with people.

Torobo is built on ROS, so the same programs run on both the physical robot and in simulators. Tokyo Robotics provides models for Gazebo, MuJoCo, and NVIDIA Isaac Sim, and the robot ships with standard capabilities such as trajectory planning and self-interference detection. Tokyo Robotics describes the platform as under development, with optional sensor heads, end-effectors, and an onboard image-processing computer available.

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