Bielefeld University · research humanoid
BARTHOC
An upper-body humanoid with camera eyes and a moving, human-like face, built to study dialogue, gestures and the 'uncanny valley' in human-robot interaction; a smaller twin, BARTHOC Junior, was also made. Later fitted with movable hands, it could name, grasp and move objects while talking about them, and it appeared on National Geographic covers in 2011.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
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- Payload
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- Speed
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- Battery
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Why it matters
A retired humanoid from Bielefeld University.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
Bielefeld UniversityCompanyPublic attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current humanoids.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Hands
- simple
- Movement
- Stationary
From the maker
BARTHOC is the only humanoid from Bielefeld University in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
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. How we choose
| Measure | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useBARTHOCBielefeld University | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useWE-4RIIWaseda University (Atsuo Takanishi lab)Same job: social · Both fixed in place · Both past robots |  Geminoid HI-1ATR and Osaka University (Hiroshi Ishiguro) with KokoroSame job: social · Both fixed in place · Both past robots |  Actroid (Repliee Q1)Osaka University (Hiroshi Ishiguro) and Kokoro Co.Same job: social · Both fixed in place · Both past robots |
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| First shown | 2005 | 2004 | 2006 | 2003-11 |
| Status | Retired | Retired | Retired | Retired |
| Height | — | 97 cm | 175 cm | — |
| Weight | — | 59.3 kg | 100 kg | — |
| Joints | — | 59 | — | 42 |
| Speed | — | — | — | — |
| Payload | — | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — | — |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
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