Technical University of Munich (TUM) · research humanoid
Rosie
A household research robot with two DLR-KUKA lightweight arms, four-fingered hands and a camera head on an omnidirectional base, known for autonomously cooking pancakes and sausages.
- 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 Technical University of Munich.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- First shown
- 2009
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Technical University of Munich (TUM)University lab · founded 1868 · Munich, GermanyPublic university (budget about EUR 2.17 billion in 2024, including the university hospital)
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
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- Actuators & motors
- Two DLR-KUKA lightweight (LWR) 7-DoF arms; 2-DoF head; 3-DoF omnidirectional base; 45 DoF total.
- Hands
- DLR-HIT four-fingered hands, 13 DoF each, with mini cameras in the fingertips.
- Sensors & vision
- Two high-resolution cameras, a thermal camera, three laser scanners, fingertip mini cameras, Microsoft Kinect.
- Compute
- Two PCs, each with two Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz CPUs and 12 GB RAM.
- Battery & power
- 48 V 110 Ah lead-acid batteries.
- Materials & build
- Carbon fibre, aluminium and 3D-printed parts; built mostly from commercial industrial and research components.
- AI & software
- CRAM (Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine) and CogMan (Cognitive Manipulation).
- Other details
- Worked in a realistic kitchen lab; known for autonomously making pancakes and sausages. Creators called its cost 'priceless'.
Named suppliers:IntelMicrosoft (Kinect)
Lineage
Every Technical University of Munich humanoid in order.
Watch Rosie
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
- Technical University of Munich (Intelligent Autonomous Systems group), Germany
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 | RosieTechnical University of Munich |  PR2Willow GarageSame job: home · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  DynamaidUniversity of Bonn (Autonomous Intelligent Systems group, team NimbRo@Home)Same job: home · Both on wheels · Both past robots | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to usePR1 (Personal Robot One)Stanford Personal Robotics Program (Keenan Wyrobek, Eric Berger)Same job: home · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2009 | 2010-05-26 | 2009-04 | 2008 |
| Status | Retired | Discontinued | Retired | Retired |
| Height | — | 165 cm | — | 120 cm |
| Weight | — | 226.8 kg | — | 98 kg |
| Joints | — | 20 | 30 | 23 |
| Speed | — | 3.6 km/h | — | 7.2 km/h |
| Payload | — | 1.8 kg | 1 kg | — |
| Battery | — | 2 h | — | — |
| Price | — | $400,000 | — | — |
Sources
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