DFKI Robotics Innovation Center · research humanoid
AILA
Artificial Intelligence Lightweight Android
A female-styled humanoid torso on a wheeled base from Bremen's DFKI, used to study mobile manipulation, perception and AI, including tasks meant for future space-station work.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 170 cmTaller than 59%
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A retired humanoid from DFKI Robotics Innovation Center.
Real-world use
Research projects SemProM, Robofoot, BesMan, HySociaTea
Timeline
- First shown
- 2010
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
DFKI Robotics Innovation CenterGovernment lab · Bremen, GermanyFederal funds via DLR and BMBF for RH5 projects
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
AILA (Artificial Intelligence Lightweight Android) is taller than 59% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
AILA (Artificial Intelligence Lightweight Android) has more joints than 54% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: 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 · 32 joints
- Actuators & motors
- 14 brushless DC motors in the arms, 4 linear DC motors in the torso, 12 wheel motors, 2 head servos; in-house joint electronics (power, FPGA and sensor boards) on five CAN lines.
- Hands
- 9 active DoF per hand with tactile sensors; arm lifts up to 8 kg (payload-to-weight ratio above one was a design goal).
- Sensors & vision
- Two Prosilica GC780C stereo cameras in the head, Mesa SR-4000 time-of-flight camera in the belly, tilting Hokuyo URG short-range laser in the chest, two Hokuyo UTM long-range lasers in the base, two six-axis wrist force/torque sensors, Skyetek M4 RFID reader.
- Compute
- Two 3.5-inch embedded PCs (motion control in the head, navigation in the base) and a mini-ITX board with a graphics card for vision in the torso; FPGA controllers in each arm joint; Gigabit Ethernet.
- Battery & power
- 48 V 4.5 Ah nickel-metal-hydride battery; about 30 minutes of operation.
- Materials & build
- Carbon fibre, aluminium and steel.
- AI & software
- Linux; ROS for communication, Rock middleware and Roby high-level control; DFKI tools MARS, BOLeRo and NDLCom.
- Other details
- Six-wheel base with 2 DoF per wheel. DFKI counts 32 DoF without hands. Used in SemProM, Robofoot, BesMan and space-station mock-up teleoperation work.
Named suppliers:ROS (Open Robotics)Hokuyo
Lineage
Every DFKI Robotics Innovation Center 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 robot
- Sold or delivered
- not sold
- Where it is sold or used
- DFKI Robotics Innovation Center, Bremen
- Customers and pilots
- Research projects SemProM, Robofoot, BesMan, HySociaTea
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- AILA works in a space-station mock-up
DFKI showed the first official BesMan demonstration with AILA in its ISS mock-up.
DFKI Robotics Innovation Center - AILA teleoperated for space-station tasks
DFKI demonstrated Kinect-based and space-station teleoperation of AILA.
DFKI Robotics Innovation Center - AILA handles products by itself
DFKI showed AILA autonomously handling products using smart product memories in the SemProM project.
DFKI Robotics Innovation Center
Sources
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