National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) · industrial humanoid
HRP-5P
A 1.82 m, 101 kg research humanoid with 37 degrees of freedom that maps its surroundings, picks up and carries boards, and screws them to a wall. Payload shown is a two-handed plywood panel.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 182 cmTaller than 91%
- Weight
- 101 kgHeavier than 84%
- Payload
- 13 kgCarries more than 59%
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Demonstrated autonomous installation of a gypsum drywall board, a heavy construction task.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)Government lab · founded 2001 · Tokyo, JapanGovernment-funded (METI-overseen); HRP-5P work funded by NEDO and JSPS
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
HRP-5P is taller than 91% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
HRP-5P is heavier than 84% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
HRP-5P carries more than 59% of the 132 other humanoids that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
HRP-5P has more joints than 64% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: speed, battery, price.
What it has been shown doing
4 of 14 skills we track, each from a public video or report. Demos can be staged or remote-controlled; we say so when the source does.
- Assemble partsinstalled and fastened a gypsum board at a mock construction site · Sep 2018 · aist.go.jp
- Use toolspicked up a screwing tool and screwed the board to the wall · Sep 2018 · aist.go.jp
- Carry 10 kg or morelifted an 11-13 kg gypsum board and carried it to the wall while walking · Sep 2018 · aist.go.jp
- Runs on its ownAIST describes it as autonomous gypsum-board installation · Sep 2018 · aist.go.jp
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Public attention
How much public attention HRP-5P gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs · 37 joints
- Actuators & motors
- High-output motors with added drive-mechanism cooling, some joints driven by multiple motors; average joint torque and speed roughly double the revised HRP-2; hip range 202 degrees and waist 300 degrees (AIST).
- Hands
- 2 DoF per hand (AIST); each palm carries a camera.
- Sensors & vision
- Head-mounted sensors capture 3D measurements of the surroundings at about 0.3 Hz (AIST).
- AI & software
- 3D environment mapping, a CNN detecting ten object types at over 90% precision, AR markers for tools, whole-body motion planning, about 250,000 lines of code, tested in the Choreonoid simulator with daily regression runs (AIST).
- Other details
- Each extended arm bears 2.9 kg; carried a roughly 13 kg gypsum board; funded by NEDO and JSPS; uses Honda patents (AIST).
Lineage
Every National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) humanoid in order.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Research prototype; count not published
- Where it is sold or used
- Japan
News
The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- AIST unveils drywall-installing HRP-5P
AIST announced the 182 cm prototype that autonomously fixes gypsum boards to walls.
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Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | HRP-5PNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) |  KaleidoKawasaki Heavy IndustriesSame job: industrial · Both walk · Both research platforms · Similar size |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2018-09-27 | 2017-11 |
| Status | Research | Research |
| Height | 182 cm | 175 cm |
| Weight | 101 kg | 85 kg |
| Joints | 37 | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Payload | 13 kg | — |
| Battery | — | — |
| Price | — | — |
Sources
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