@article{84bfc4fef17f44fe8f6821317f0b657f,
title = "The design of the iCub humanoid robot",
abstract = "This article describes the hardware design of the iCub humanoid robot. The iCub is an open-source humanoid robotic platform designed explicitly to support research in embodied cognition. This paper covers the mechanical and electronic design of the first release of the robot. A series upgrades developed for the second version of the robot (iCub2), which are aimed at the improvement of the mechanical and sensing performance, are also described.",
keywords = "Humanoid robotics, cognitive system, open source",
author = "Alberto Parmiggiani and Marco Maggiali and Lorenzo Natale and Francesco Nori and Alexander Schmitz and Nikos Tsagarakis and Victor, {Jos{\'e} Santos} and Francesco Becchi and Giulio Sandini and Giorgio Metta",
note = "Funding Information: This work has been supported by the European Commision RobotCub IST-FP6-004370, CHRIS IST-FP7-215805, RoboSKIN ICT-FP7-231500 and Xperience ICT-FP7-270273 projects.",
year = "2012",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1142/S0219843612500272",
language = "English",
volume = "9",
journal = "International Journal of Humanoid Robotics",
issn = "0219-8436",
publisher = "World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd",
number = "4",
}