Robo Armwrestler

An arm-wrestling robot called Robo Armwrestler has recently been developed in our Intelligent Control and Robotics Laboratory to benefit the health care of senior citizens. In this article we have presented the system design, implementation, force feedback control, and generation of intelligent arm-wrestling scenarios of an arm-wrestling robot. Although Robo Armwrestler works as expected with the designed autonomy and reasonable control performance, we plan to further pursue research to provide the device with the ability to recognize facial expressions of a human using a Webcam and thus emotionally communicate with the player. Moreover, we plan to add degrees-of-freedom for more human-like motion and to eventually integrate arm-wrestling functions into a humanoid robot.