Humanoid & robot atlas
Dav
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Michigan State University · research humanoid

Dav

Wheeled humanoid and more sophisticated sibling of MSU's SAIL robot, with pan-capable camera eyes, microphone ears, lips and eyebrows for basic expressions, and multi-jointed sensorised arms and hands on a four-wheel base. It weighed 242 kg and its embedded devices were networked to reduce wiring.

Price
—Not published
Height
—Not published
Weight
242 kgHeavier than 99%
Payload
—Not published
Speed
—Not published
Battery
—Not published
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Why it matters

Built as a humanoid body for 'developmental' robotics, where the robot learns tasks online from experience instead of being programmed for each one.

Real-world use

No customers or deployments reported yet.

Timeline

First shown
2002
Released
Not yet

Maker

Michigan State UniversityCompany

How it stacks up

Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

  1. DavMichigan State University (Juyang Weng, Embodied Intelligence Laboratory) · 2002242 kg
  2. DB (Dynamic Brain)ATR and JST ERATO Kawato Dynamic Brain Project, hardware by SARCOS · 200080 kg
  3. HRP-2 PrometKawada Industries and AIST (METI/NEDO Humanoid Robotics Project) · 200258 kg
  4. HUBO (KHR-3)KAIST Hubo Lab (Jun-Ho Oh) · 200455 kg
  5. JOHNNIETechnical University of Munich (Institute of Applied Mechanics) · 200349 kg
  6. ASIMOHonda · 200043 kg
  7. QRIO (SDR-4X)Sony · 20026.5 kg
  8. HOAP-1Fujitsu Automation / Fujitsu Laboratories · 20016 kg

Dav is heavier than 99% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.

Weight 242 kg 1 kg320 kg #4 of 278 · heavier than 99%

Not published by the maker: height, speed, payload, joints, 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
  • No recent press stories listed yet

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What’s inside

No component details published yet.

Hands
unknown
Movement
Wheeled base

From the maker

Dav is the only humanoid from Michigan State University (Juyang Weng, Embodied Intelligence Laboratory) 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

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

MIT Technology Review Demo: Teachable Robots (July 2003) Michigan State University (Juyang Weng) Teachable Robots (Technology Review July/August 2003, PDF) Michigan State University Libraries Dav: A Humanoid Platform and Developmental Learning with Case Studies (S. Zeng, PhD dissertation, 2004)

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