Surena (robot)

[1] SURENA I(1) project was built at the Center for Advanced Vehicles (CAV), University of Tehran, with financial support from the R&D Society of Iranian Industries and Mines.

SURENA II was built by a team of 20 engineers and students in less than two years, and was unveiled in Tehran on July 3 as part of the country’s celebration of “Industry and Mine Day” by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The next iteration of Surena was funded by the Industrial Development and Renovation Organization (IDRO) of Iran and built by a team of 70 at the University of Tehran.

The robot has been developed in CAST (Center of Advanced Systems and Technologies) by more than 50 researchers under the supervision of Dr. Aghil Yousefi-Koma, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tehran.

By the means of Robot Operation System (ROS), state monitoring, real time implementation of algorithms, and simultaneous running of several programs have become straightforward.

Online grip, face and object follow, and action imitation have been implemented by combining AI abilities and whole-body motion planning.