The development of a humanoid robot in the collaborative research centre 588 has the objective of creating a machine that closely cooperates with humans. The collaborative research centre 588 (SFB588) “Humanoid Robots – learning and cooperating multi-modal robots” was established by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Karlsruhe in May 2000. The SFB588 is a cooperation of the University of Karlsruhe, the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK), the Research Center for Information Technologies (FZI) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing (IITB) in Karlsruhe
