ARMAR 6 is a robot designed to assist a human to perform maintenance in the warehouses. The concept of a sixth generation robot is made by SecondHands (first version was developed in 1999) and it is a collaboration between Ocado (a U.K. company that operates highly automated warehouses), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (which has a bunch of experience building capable humanoid robots), and other research institutions including EPFL, UCL, and Sapienza University of Rome.
ARMAR 6 has four fundamental concepts:
the design of a new robotic assistant;
a knowledge base to facilitate proactive help (and ongoing AI learning);
a high degree of human-robot interaction (a human can safely interact at any time);
advanced perception skills to function in a highly dynamic industrial environment (tracking movement of human coworkers).
ARMAR-6 features:
Two 8-DoF torque-controlled arms with position and torque sensing;
Two 6-DoF force torque sensors in the wrists;
Two underactuated 5-finger hands;
Holonomic mobile base;
Telescopic torso joint;
2-DoF head with two stereo camera systems and an RGB-D sensor;
Integrated sensor-actuator-controller units.
More:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/kit-armar6-humanoid
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2158343-the-smart-humanoid-robot-that-will-help-in-grocery-warehouses/
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