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Russia Unveils ‘Aidol’, a Humanoid Robot With Embodied AI

The developer coalition says the prototype is 77% locally sourced with a goal of reaching 93%.

Overview

  • Presented in Moscow on November 11, the Aidol prototype was introduced by the New Technological Coalition, which includes Promobot, Double U Expo, Aidol and Robot Corporation.
  • Developers say the robot performs bipedal locomotion, object manipulation and directed human communication with expressive mimicry.
  • All systems are described as operating fully offline, with on-board speech synthesis and control, and a stated battery life of up to six hours.
  • Technical details cited by the team include 67 degrees of freedom, 19 facial servos enabling at least 12 emotions, a seven-microphone array, two stereo cameras and an IMU, a payload of up to 10 kg and a walking speed of up to 6 km/h.
  • Aidol was trained in simulation and on collected datasets with on-board self-learning, using in-house servers in Moscow and rented Russian cloud capacity, and developers are targeting industrial, logistics and public-service deployments; independent testing and timelines were not reported.