Design of a human-robot cooperative robot manipulator using SMART actuators

Human-robot cooperative robot is one of the best interesting research topics in the world, these days. In that reason, some manipulators which is able to cooperate with human operators has been developed. In these researches, the needs for the robot design using SMART actuators has been come out because human cooperative robots have so called, “light-weight and slim configuration” in the view point of the safe-robot-motion. For that reason, SMART actuators has been developed, and the human-cooperative manipulator is under design. In this paper, the research results are introduced.