iCub

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia · Italy · unveiled in 2008

on sale

An open-source research humanoid the size of a small child, developed since 2004 in the European RobotCub project and later at IIT for research into embodied artificial intelligence. Laboratories can obtain it from IIT for a fee.

Price: from ≈ 4,872,000 CZK (manufacturer’s price list)

Applications

• research and education [1] [2]

Data

Data on iCub

degrees of freedom	53 [1] [2]
price	approx. 250,000 EUR (indicative, 2026) (according to the manufacturer) [1]

Sources

• euRobotics – A European humanoid based on interdisciplinary research
• IIT – iCub History
• IIT – iCub Product catalog
• Metta a kol. – The iCub humanoid robot (PerMIS'08)

In the History of robots

• 2008 – First version of the open iCub platform

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