Kenshiro

Kenshiro is a tendon-driven humanoid from the University of Tokyo, presented in December 2012. Its 158 cm, 50 kg body is modelled on an average 12-year-old Japanese boy. It uses about 160 cord-and-pulley muscle units, 50 in the legs, 76 in the trunk, 12 in the shoulders and 22 in the neck. Brushless DC motors from maxon drive them, and maxon's application story gives 93 motors in total for the 160 units.

New Atlas and IEEE Spectrum report 64 degrees of freedom, excluding hands. IEEE Spectrum describes the robot as shown at the Humanoids conference in December 2012; the year is inferred from its article date. New Atlas reports that the team wants to learn how muscle groups move with the skeleton and to 'push the limits of musculoskeletal robots further'.

Kenshiro followed Kojiro in the university's line of musculoskeletal robots. According to GIGAZINE, it gives about five times the power output of its predecessor. The university's exhibit page describes Kenshiro and Kengoro as successors that evolved Kojiro's design. Kenshiro has no price, sales channel or public release, and no source reviewed shows it in active development, so it is classed as discontinued.