Waseda TWENDY-ONE

Model: TWENDY-ONE

TWENDY-ONE is Waseda University's human-symbiotic research robot for domestic and care assistance. It uses an omnidirectional wheeled base, passive-compliance joints, two 7-DOF arms and two 13-DOF hands. It is 146.7 cm tall, 73.4 cm wide, weighs 111 kg and has 47 DOF. The roughly US$200,000 figure reported at the time was a future commercialization target, not an actual sale price.