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ARMAR-7

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About ARMAR-7

ARMAR-7 is a wheeled humanoid assistance robot developed by KIT's High Performance Humanoid Technologies laboratory. It is designed to investigate everyday help in human environments, including households and nursing facilities. Spoken interaction lets a person communicate a task, while the ArmarX cognitive architecture connects perception, learning and coordinated robot behaviour.

Two torque-controlled eight-joint arms and underactuated hands provide manipulation, with cameras in the hands and additional camera systems in the head. A knee-and-hip mechanism adjusts torso height and allows bowing, while three omni-wheels provide holonomic movement. The laboratory studies tasks such as opening doors, loading a dishwasher and handing objects to people. ARMAR-7 succeeds ARMAR-III and shares its software architecture with ARMAR-6 and ARMAR-DE, supporting transfer of research methods between platforms.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Operating environments: Cyber Valley anniversary demonstration, Tübingen, Cyber Valley public demonstration, Households and nursing facilities, Households
  • Human-robot handover

    Demonstrated - 2026-09-09 - Hand a pretzel to a person during a public demonstration. - environment: Cyber Valley anniversary demonstration, Tübingen

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  • Doors and articulated objects

    Claimed - Open doors in homes or nursing facilities. - environment: Households and nursing facilities

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  • Dishwasher loading

    Claimed - Load a dishwasher as part of household assistance. - environment: Households

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Research

  • Learning to Forget — Hierarchical Episodic Memory for Lifelong Robot Deployment

    2026-04-13 - Research Publication - A hierarchical episodic-memory method learns relevance rules from user feedback and evaluates selective forgetting on household simulations and ARMAR-7 recordings.

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Resources

Curated durable documents and official technical references.

Timeline

  • KIT H²T demonstrates ARMAR-7 at Cyber Valley’s anniversary

    2026-09-09 - Demonstration - The robot handed a pretzel to Baden-Württemberg Minister-President Cem Özdemir. H²T director Tamim Asfour presented the laboratory’s research and took part in the Cyber Valley Voices discussion. The ARMAR programme investigates assistance in care, households and workplaces.

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