Undulations (Camel)

         Hip Circle

        Hip Release

          Shimmies

Undulations (Camel)

        Movement 1

        Movement 2

      Movement 3

        Movement 4

        Movement 5

      Movement 6

Or J.: A Control System for a Flexible Spine Belly Dancing Humanoid Robot, Artificial Life Journal (MIT Press), Vol. 12(1), pp. 63-87, 2006  (Submitted in December, 2002. QuickTime required)  Please click here to download.

Or J. and Takanishi A.: From Lamprey to Humanoid: The Design and Control of a Flexible Spine Belly Dancing Humanoid Robot with Inspiration from Biology, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 2(1), pp. 81-104, 2005 (Submitted on October 31, 2003)

    Hyper-extension

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Full-body motions

Acknowledgments: 

This research was conducted in Takanishi Lab at the Humanoid Robotics Institute of Waseda University under the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. Thanks also go to Akihisa Okino at Okino Industries, Ltd. for his sponsorship.