Design of Humanoid Robot Hua Zhibao

In this paper, a novel humanoid robot, named as Robot Hua Zhibao, is developed, which could have great applications in accompanying the people who are in great need of emotional care, such as the lonely elders, the widowhood and so on. Its height and weight are 190cm and 57kg with a human friendly appearance. Hua Zhibao has 36 degrees of freedom (DOFs) in total (13 for head motions and 23 for body motions). 11 servo motors responsible for face movements and 2 direct current (DC) motors responsible for neck movements, are adopted for generating complex facial expressions such as happy, angry, sadness and so on. Each arm of Robot Hua Zhibao, equipped with 11 DOFs, could imitate various human-like body motions even lift something for human. Even more, Hua Zhibao is an intelligent system, equipped with sensory systems, electronic controlling system to make much smarter.