The project is funded by the "Aktionsplan Informatik" of German Research Foundation. It aims at developing learning humanoid robots, which have an anthropomorphic body and anthropomorphic senses. For this purpose we are developing mechanical and electronic components as well as algorithms for perception and behavior control.

Our research objectives include achieving energy-efficient bipedal locomotion by supporting the system dynamics and intuitive multimodal communication with humans through analysis and synthesis of body language, gestures, facial expressions, and language. We are going to use different learning techniques, such as learning by imitation, to optimize the robots' behavior.

We are going to use two test beds to investigate different aspects of the problem: the robots should take part in the RoboCup soccer competitions and also shall be deployed as museum guides. It is planned to improve the robot on a yearly schedule.