MAAHR stands for Most Advanced Amateur Humanoid Robot. The goal is to design, build and program a robot which is similar sophisticated as ASIMO. The project is completely open source, everybody can participate. Team Selene will sponsor MAAHR with 15000USD for hard-, software and logistics.

MAAHR's specifications so far:

* 2DOF head with 2 cameras and LCD mouth
* 2DOF main body
* 2 x 5DOF robot arms
* 2 x robot hand, capable to lift at least 1kg
* 4 wheeled or tracked base
* Moving objects
* Postures and gestures recognation
* Speech recognation (and distinguishing sounds)
* Synthesized voice
* Recognizes the objects and terrain of its environment
* Facial recognition
* Internet connectivity

To participate, you need to register on Let's make robots and go then to the MAAHR project site where you can add a comment with the wish to participate.