Humanoid Heads Summary

MAVERic is a versatile robotic vision head developed for oculo-motor research at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute'sLaboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience.It has 7 Degrees of Freedom (DOF) - pan and tilt in each eye and head rotate, nod and tilt - and is controlled using a real time operating system (vxWorks). MAVERic is equipped with multiple sensory modalities including position sensing (7DOFs), load sensing (3DOFs), stereo microphones, foveal and peripheral vision in each eye and a 6-axes gyroscope in addition to laser range finders in each eye.

One MAVERic head is available for research at USC.

Research with MAVERic investigates visuomotor coordination using multiple degrees of freedom camera systems. We study, in particular, oculo-motor coordination. More information can be found on

1:  The MAVERIC project

2: Sethu Vijayakumar's oculo-motor research projects