[1][2] The development of Archie started in 2004 at the Institute of Handling Robots and Devices (IHRT) under supervision of Professor Peter Kopacek.
Lower body of Archie is designed and driven using brushless motors that are able to provide 50 Nm moment after the gearbox output.
For Archie's joints Harmonic drives are employed in order to decreasing the size of the design and increasing the efficiency of the Robot.
The central controller which entitles an HydraXC50 (Xilinx Virtex 4 FPGA) is designed to run a Real Time Linux (RT-Linux) beside some application based hardware.
For instance, the communication (back and forth) between the central controller and the joints of the robot is designated as a task for the application based hardware.