Inventors:
Douglas Martin Linn - White Lake MI, US
Robert O. Ambrose - Houston TX, US
Myron A. Diftler - Houston TX, US
Scott R. Askew - Houston TX, US
Robert Platt - Houston TX, US
Joshua S. Mehling - League City TX, US
Nicolaus A. Radford - League City TX, US
Phillip A. Strawser - Houston TX, US
Lyndon Bridgwater - Houston TX, US
Muhammad E. Abdallah - Houston TX, US
Chris A. Ihrke - Hartland MI, US
Matthew J. Reiland - Oxford MI, US
Adam M. Sanders - Holly MI, US
David M. Reich - Huntsville AL, US
Brian Hargrave - Dickenson TX, US
Adam H. Parsons - Tulsa OK, US
Frank Noble Permenter - Webster TX, US
Donald R. Davis - Brighton MI, US
Assignee:
GM Global Technology Operations LLC - Detroit MI
The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Washington DC
International Classification:
B25J 11/00
Abstract:
A humanoid robot includes a torso, a pair of arms, two hands, a neck, and a head. The torso extends along a primary axis and presents a pair of shoulders. The pair of arms movably extend from a respective one of the pair of shoulders. Each of the arms has a plurality of arm joints. The neck movably extends from the torso along the primary axis. The neck has at least one neck joint. The head movably extends from the neck along the primary axis. The head has at least one head joint. The shoulders are canted toward one another at a shrug angle that is defined between each of the shoulders such that a workspace is defined between the shoulders.