18-DOF Humanoid Robot
Jan 1, 2021·
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1 min read
Ömer Kurkutlu
Overview
Designed and built an 18-degree-of-freedom humanoid robot from scratch, including custom mechanical design, embedded motor control on Arduino, and vision-based perception running on a Raspberry Pi.
Authors
PhD Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago, advised by Dr. Arman Roohi. I specialize in robot learning, Physical AI, and autonomous systems. My research focuses on deep reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, vision-based navigation, sim-to-real, and resource-constrained robotics, with hands-on experience in NVIDIA Isaac Sim/Isaac Lab, ROS/ROS2, and embedded AI.