New ISAMARO MarkII Humanoid Robot

Japanese hobby robotics store Robotma.com has announced a new humanoid robot kit called the ISAMARO MarkII.  As explained by our friends at PlasticPals, this second version of ISAMARO cuts the price in half, from $4130 to $2040 or so.  This cost reduction was achieved by replacing the original 19 kg cm servos with less expensive ones with only 13 kg cm of torque.  The kit is approved for use in the ROBO-ONE Light competition, and goes on sale next month.

Here are the full specs:

• Degrees of freedom: 19
• Height: 350 mm
• Mass: 1.9 kg
• Servos: Kondo KRS-4031HV (19)
• Battery: lithium-polymer
• Controller board: RCB-4HV

[Via PlasticPals.]