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.

翻译：在本章中,我们描述了iCub人类平台的历史和演变情况。我们首先描述第一个版本,因为它是在机器人Cub Europe项目期间设计的,并说明了它是如何演变成为全世界30多个实验室采用的平台的。我们通过说明目前在iCub机器人上进行的一些研究活动,即视觉感知、事件驱动感知和动态控制来完成这一章。我们在结束该章时,讨论了我们学到的教训,并预览了即将推出的机器人iCub 3.0,即iCub 3.0。