ABB, the world's biggest industrial automation company, is promoting a very impressive humanoid concept platform called FRIDA. I want it real bad. From IEEE Spectrum Automation Blog
"Traditional industrial robots are big, expensive, and hard to integrate into existing manufacturing processes. They're also difficult to reprogram when production changes become necessary and they can't safely share spaces with human workers. This barrier to entry has kept small and medium companies "robot-less" -- at a time when robots, more than ever, could boost productivity and ameliorate labor shortages…
To make it even safer, its motors have limited drive power and soft pads cover its body. The robot has 7-axis arms, each with a servo gripper for small-part handling. Inside the torso is a control system based on ABB's IRC5 industrial controller. So what can FRIDA do? One scenario ABB envisions is using it to bring more automation to the fast-paced, and mostly human-powered, assembly lines found in the electronics industry."
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That's a small one!
But not the first with dual-arms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UBFo8cgLBM&feature=player_detai...
(Yes, I have worked for Motoman)