High dynamic humanoid robot for playing e.g. electronic drum set, in music group, has skeleton including head and neck, where neck and head of robot are moved in pattern according to striking pattern of drum set

摘要

The robot has a skeleton including a head (28) driven with one degree of freedom, and a neck (29) driven with two degrees of freedom, where an elbow(6), a hand (7), a hip (8), a knee (9) and an ankle (10) of the skeleton are driven with one degree of freedom. The robot is positioned to play a commercial acoustic or electronic drum set, where the motion of a drumstick held by the robot is computer controlled by a human drummer. The neck and the head of the robot are moved in a pattern according to the striking pattern of the drum set.