Kojiro is a humanoid being built at the University of Tokyo JSK Robotics Laboratory, with a detailed musculoskeletal system built to mimic in detail the human body.

The artificial system of bones, muscles and tendons will create a robot that is theoretically more lightweight and agile robotics community in circulation now, and that moves in a more organic way to our untrained eyes. The bot has little engines that pull the cables, simulating the way they interact muscles and tendons, and has about 100 muscle-tendon structures, which allow 60 degrees of freedom – most of Rotary as Asimo bot (34 degrees). Of course this is not the only bot built to imitate the style entirely human, but can boast a ripiegabilità and flexibility of the spine that the regular bot simply can not do right now. The greatest difficulty in robots as Kojiro and programming, with an army of gyroscopes, accelerometers and force sensors embedded in every corner of bots to help you remain in balance and learn to do it alone.

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