In this chapter we describe the history and evolution of the iCub humanoid platform. We start by describing the first version as it was designed during the RobotCub EU project and illustrate how it evolved to become the platform that is adopted by more than 30 laboratories world wide. We complete the chapter by illustrating some of the research activities that are currently carried out on the iCub robot, i.e. visual perception, event driven sensing and dynamic control. We conclude the Chapter with a discussion of the lessons we learned and a preview of the upcoming next release of the robot, iCub 3.0.

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iCub平台：演变和当前趋势

在本章中，我们描述了iCub人形平台的历史和演变。我们首先描述在RobotCub EU项目期间设计的第一个版本，并说明它如何演变成为全球30多个实验室采用的平台。通过说明当前在iCub机器人上进行的一些研究活动（即视觉感知，事件驱动的感测和动态控制）来完成本章。在本章的结尾，我们讨论了所学到的课程，并预览了即将发布的下一个机器人iCub 3.0。