Ameca

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Overview

• Designed specifically as a platform for development into future robotics technologies, Ameca is a humanoid robot platform for human-robot interaction.
• The Ameca pages in this wiki serve as a user guide, and cover technical aspects of Ameca and its operation.
• For an introduction to Ameca see our website

Brochure and technical specification

Download-Ameca-brochure

Download the Ameca brochure (pdf) for:

• Key features
• Interaction features
• Gestures and expression examples
• Technology integration (software and hardware)
• Software
• Mechanical specification

Degrees of movement

• There are 51 articulated movements
• Download the Ameca Degrees of Movement (pdf) to see them

Installation

Installation requirements

• Suitable for indoor use only. Recommended room temperature: 10°C - 30°C, relative humidity: 45% - 60%
• Standard domestic mains power in the range 100v - 250v AC
• If in a public environment: a barrier to prevent contact between visitors and Ameca
  • Or staff in attendance
• Wired internet connection with good bandwidth - see Network Setup
  • Required for TinMan Telepresence, remote administration and support; and for the application of updates and new features.

Install

• While Ameca is a new product we will provide an engineer to install Ameca at your premises, give initial training and answer any technical queries during the install
• Future Ameca generations will be designed for customer installation, with remote support available
  • An engineer install can still be arranged if desired

Programming

Creating new movements

• Virtual Robot is our tool for generating movement animation that can be called from Python or via the RESTful API
• The video below gives a quick introduction
• It is also possible to produce animation programmatically as required

Programming Ameca

• Ameca runs on our Tritium robot software framework
• See the Tritium user guide
• The simplest way to program is using the built in Python IDE

Local install of Tritium

• We are planning to release a locally installed version of Tritium in Quarter 1 of 2022
• This will run on Windows 10 or Linux and connect to cloud based IDE and robot simulator, allowing eveloping code without having robot hardware

Getting further support

• Check the support pages in the Ameca documentation on this wiki first, your question may already be answered.
• If you can't find the answer you are looking for, open a support ticket and we will get back to you as soon as possible - see our Support Policy
• If there is an urgent issue and you are not familiar with Ameca yet do call us