An impressive humanoid robot could act as your at-home helper with skills including cooking and cleaning.
The OmniH20 was designed by Tairan He, a young robotics PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
The 24-year-old is the project lead for the team who created the human-to-humanoid.
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By “using kinematic pose as a universal control interface”, you – the human –can control the full-sized tech, which has dexterous hands, in real time using a VR headset, verbal instructions and an RGB camera.
A video showcasing the robot reveals its intricate skillset; from chopping cucumbers to sweeping the floors, watering plants and three other everyday tasks.
“We release the first humanoid whole-body control dataset, OmniH2O-6, containing six everyday tasks, and demonstrate humanoid whole-body skill learning from teleoperated datasets,” the description for the humanoid reads.
Tairan was inspired by the movie Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman and Dakota Goyo.
The lead character, played by Jackman, is a former boxer who teams up with his estranged son (Goyo) to build a robot to use in the ring.
His OmniH2O robot can handle a ping pong, tennis and badminton racket, and be a boxing sparring partner, too.
“The reason that I have so much passion for the human-to-humanoid line of work is that I believe this is the way to go to build the data flywheel for robotics (use teleoperation to collect robotics data and make robots learn from human demonstrations),” Tairan told Need To Know.
“Also, I am a big fan of the movie Real Steel, so building these projects is a dream-come-true project for me.
“I am the project lead for OmniH2O, where I proposed the idea, implemented the code and conducted hardware experiments.
“Other than human2humanoid works, I also work on safety of robotics.”
