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Living Machines 2018: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems pp 40–51Cite as

The Neck of Pinobo, A Low-Cost Compliant Robot

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We introduce in this paper a robotic neck with 3\(^{\circ }\) of freedom. The Pinobo’s neck has three important features: open source software, solid, and easy to made. This early prototype is light, fast and compliant. After explaining how to build the Pinobo’s neck, we analyze the different properties of this system in order to obtain a robust controller. Pinobo is equipped with several sensors such as accelerometers, gyrometers and voltage of its motors. The robot is designed for students and researchers for scanning environment, stabilizing a head or interacting with humans.

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Acknowledgment

We would like to thank Alexandre Pitti for useful advises, Artem Melnyk for the pulleys and Patrice Thiriet for useful pointers.

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    Arnaud Blanchard & Djamel Mebarki

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  1. SPECS, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Vasiliki Vouloutsi

  2. Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des, Université Paris Diderot, Paris Cedex 13, France

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  3. SPECS, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Anna Mura

  4. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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Blanchard, A., Mebarki, D. (2018). The Neck of Pinobo, A Low-Cost Compliant Robot. In: Vouloutsi , V., et al. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10928. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95972-6_6

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