Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (H2T, High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab) · research humanoid
ARMAR-I
The first of Karlsruhe's ARMAR household humanoids: an upper body with two arms on a wheel-driven platform.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A retired humanoid from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (H2T, Tamim Asfour).
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- First shown
- 2000
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (H2T, High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab)University lab · founded 2009 · Karlsruhe, GermanyPublic university (budget about EUR 1.16 billion, 2023); ARMAR-III funded by the DFG SFB 588 programme, ARMAR-6 by the EU SecondHands project,…
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
ARMAR-I has more joints than 30% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, battery, price.
Public 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
- 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base · 25 joints
- Actuators & motors
- 25 mechanical DoF in total: 4 in the body, 7 in each arm, 3 in the head, plus the wheel drive (KIT figures). Motor type not stated.
- Hands
- Two simple grippers.
- Materials & build
- Two redundant, human-like 7-DoF arms on an upper body mounted on an autonomous, wheel-driven mobile base.
- Other details
- Karlsruhe's first humanoid robot; developed within the German Research Foundation (DFG) Collaborative Research Center on Humanoid Robots led by Ruediger Dillmann and Tamim Asfour.
Lineage
Every Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (H2T, Tamim Asfour) 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
- 1 (research prototype)
- Sold or delivered
- Not sold; research robot
- Where it is sold or used
- Karlsruhe, Germany
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- ARMAR-IIIa succeeds the early ARMARs
KIT's ARMAR-IIIa design of 2006 brought 43 DoF, force-torque sensing and a holonomic base.
KIT H2T - ARMAR-II follows
KIT dates the second ARMAR, with 65 cm arms and a stereo camera head, to 2002.
KIT H2T - Karlsruhe's first humanoid, ARMAR-I
KIT built ARMAR-I, a two-armed upper body on a wheeled base with 25 DoF.
KIT H2T
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 | ARMAR-IKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (H2T, Tamim Asfour) |  wakamaruMitsubishi Heavy IndustriesSame job: home · Both on wheels · Both past robots | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useHERMESBundeswehr University Munich (Institute of Measurement Science, Volker Graefe and Rainer Bischoff)Same job: home · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2000 | 2003-02 | 1997-12 |
| Status | Retired | Discontinued | Retired |
| Height | — | 100 cm | — |
| Weight | — | — | 250 kg |
| Joints | 25 | — | 22 |
| Speed | — | 1 km/h | — |
| Payload | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | 2 h | — |
| Price | — | $14,300 | — |
Sources
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