Government labJapan
RIKEN Bio-Mimetic Control Research Center
A RIKEN research centre that studied control systems modelled on living things, with labs on environment-adaptive robots and biologically inspired sensors. It built RI-MAN, a care robot that lifted people-sized dolls, whose work passed to the RIKEN-Tokai Rubber centre that made RIBA.
- Robot models in the atlas
- 11 humanoid
- First robot
- 2006One year so far
- Headquarters
- NagoyaJapan
- Is it still sold?No longer soldEvery robot is retired or discontinued
- What is new?2009-08RIBA succeeds RI-MAN and lifts real people
Robots
1 robot model shown in public in 2006. Newest first. Open one for its full profile.
Humanoids 1 humanoid
What is new
The latest stories about RIKEN Bio-Mimetic Control Research Center's robots, newest first.
The company
What it says about itself and what the sources record.
- Headquarters
- Nagoya, Japan
- Focus
- care robots that lift people, tactile sensing, bio-inspired control
- Funding
- Part of RIKEN, Japan's national research institute (founded 1917, almost entirely government-funded; about ¥100 billion budget in FY2023).
- Partners
- Tokai Rubber Industries (joint RTC centre from 2007, which built RIBA)
Similar makers
Other makers of humanoids, starting with those in Japan.
- Toyota Research InstituteJapan · 11 models
- Waseda University / JST Moonshot programJapan · 10 models
- JSK Laboratory, University of TokyoJapan · 9 models
- Osaka UniversityJapan · 9 models
- Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Japan · 7 models
- Kawada Industries (robot business now Kawada Robotics Corporation)Japan · 6 models
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