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Engineered ArtsRoboThespian RT4
Price
Unknown
Type
Humanoid Robots
Subtype
Human-scale Humanoid
Status
Pilot
Release Date
Unknown
Country/Region
United Kingdom
Last Verified
2026-08-19
RoboThespian RT4 is a RoboThespian family humanoid robot actor from Engineered Arts for exhibitions, education and entertainment. It combines programmable movement, speech, vision, expressive sounds and teleoperation for public-stage interaction.
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Hardware Specification
Physical Specifications
Arm Specifications
Arms and hands
Frame Material
Aluminium chassis
Materials
Aluminum alloy and plastics.
Mechanical Structure
Actuator Model
Festo pneumatic actuators and brushed DC motors.
End-Effector
Hands
Internal Wiring
Parallax processor for motor control
Joint Type
Pneumatic motors and brushed DC motors
Sensors
Camera
Cameras
Depth Camera
Infrared depth sensors
Sensors
Cameras and infrared depth sensors (for gesture and pose recognition).
Battery and Runtime
Power Supply
24-V DC power supply and air compressor
Compute Platform
Onboard Compute
Single board computer with Intel dual-core CPU, two Marvell Xscale PXA270 CPUs, and five Parallax Propeller P8X32A microcontrollers. External control unit: Intel Core i7 computer.
Operating System
Gentoo and Ubuntu Linux OS; custom core software, OpenNI and Python scripts
Interaction and Communication
Audio I/O
Speech and sounds
Communication
Speech
Remote Controller
Touchscreen control
Voice Interaction
Text-to-speech engine with male and female voices
Development and Expansion
Dance Development
Programmable acting and movement
Graphic Programming
Programmable via graphical interface
Integration Interface
API
Operating Modes
Scripted and teleoperation modes
Teleoperation
Supported
Commercial Status
Status
Pilot
Price
Unknown
Release Date
Unknown
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