RoboSavvy is dedicated to bring the excitement of (Robo-One) humanoid robots outside of Japan. We support the growing community of advanced humanoid robot builders. Please visit our Forums where you can learn about building humanoid robots.
Hobby Humanoid robots can be programmed to perform human-like movements and can function autonomously by remote control
Robo-One is a popular martial arts competition for robots held in Japan and Korea.
These humanoid come unassembled in a box with hundreds of little parts
and several servo actuators. Check out for example the KHR-1 Assembly pages or the Robonova Assembly pages.
Bundled PC software is used for managing orchestrated movement
sequences. Using the "catch and play" method one can record position
and transition speeds of servo-driven limbs. Consecutive “pose”
snapshots are played in sequence (through user-defined transition
speeds) to create the effects of walking, kicking, dancing and perform
karate movements.
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3rd RoboSavvy UK humanoid Robot gathering 19-April-2008
The 3rd UK humanoid robot meetup has been scheduled for Saturday 19th April". This is a great opportunity to meet fellow RoboSavvy members, exchange technical information and compete in Robo-One style games.
4DSystems OLED display is used as a head for Robonova. Connected via the LCD port using i-Bot's code. Propeller powering the OLED can do other stuff in parallel.
Forum member Voelker added hip rotation capabilities to his RN1 by adding two HSR5498SG between the hip brackets, drilling four
holes and directly fixing the servos onto the bracket.
HaViMo-1 - Bioloid's new vision Module
Hamid's
Vision Module for Bioloid is the latest community add-on for the
Bioloid kit.
Forum member aguiloco debuted his new RN1 accessory: "The gun is made in methacrylate and metal, and
the RN-1 can reload it easily. To make the bag I use an old AC
transformer´s case to keep the flash camera circuit, batteries for
laser and charge and one mini servo to switch the laser and the shoot"
Genex suite was designed for KHR-2HV. However, there have been a couple of reports of people fitting the Genex suite onto the KHR-1HV that is a bit taller and has additional hip servos.
RoboSavvy is UK's distributor for SparkFun embeded products.
Current stock includes several popular modules such as BlueSmirf that has been used to replace the serial cable of many humanoids and Audrino Stamp which can be used as a generic I/O sensor board for the Bioloid. (if you need any SparkFun product that is not in our online catalogue, please don't hesitate to send us an email to
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