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Korean Bipedal Robot Kit
Posted by
michael
on Fri Jul 09, 2004 03:21 PM
from the wow-robot dept.
from the wow-robot dept.
The Black Dragon writes "This has got to be the coolest thing I've seen in a while. It's a bipedal (walks on two legs) robot that you can put together yourself and program with movements. The site is in Korean, but from what I've been able to get from translators and currency exchange, it'll cost about $1,400. (There's a movie embedded half way down.)" Gizmodo has a blurb.
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Another Robot... (Score:5, Informative)
Here is a link that shows what appears at a glance to be a superior robot model [vstone.co.jp] from Japan doing all kinds of neat tricks. It has 22 Degrees of Freedom rather than the 17 DOF in the robot from Wow Robot. This page also has video, but they are all links at the bottom of the page.
I agree that one of these would be great fun to play with!
Re:Another Robot... (Score:2)
Re:Another Robot... (Score:2, Funny)
Inside of the package, you may find...
For aprx $4500 I would hope that I may find a robot in my package. No wait, that sounds dirty.
Re:Another Robot... (Score:3, Informative)
Product page in English (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.kopropo.com/robot_kits.htm
Japanese page with more info:
http://www.kopropo.co.jp/html/KONDO/Robot_produ
Wowrobot seems to be just a retailer specialized in robots...
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Re:Another Robot... (Score:5, Informative)
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Hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:2, Funny)
And build a robot girlfriend.
Man these things are cheaper than a mail order bride!
Re:Hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Most awesome robot EVER... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Most awesome robot EVER... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re: Can't tell (Score:2, Funny)
Re: Can't tell (Score:3, Informative)
Re: Can't tell (Score:3, Funny)
$1400 robot with instructions in Korean... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:$1400 robot with instructions in Korean... (Score:5, Funny)
We know what you won't be doing.
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I welcome... (Score:2, Insightful)
But... (Score:5, Funny)
Lego my eggo (Score:4, Interesting)
The legos were a lot of fun, but the batteries for the remote/receiver never lasted that long.
This could be a nice next-generation version of the lego system, or it could turn into (brace yourself) this [irobotmovie.com].
Does it come with GPP? (Score:4, Funny)
Static or dynamic? (Score:5, Informative)
The video is impressive, but are we watching a simple playback of a preprogrammed sequence? In that case, no dynamic "balancing" is necessary.
A robot with true balance would have to be MUCH more sophisticated.
It does a headstand (Score:3, Funny)
Who want's a kidney? I'm willing to sell a kidney to get this thing.
Note: I didn't say "I'm willing to sell one of my kidneys to get this thing.". What do you care where the kidney comes from?
Re:It does a headstand (Score:2)
How old was the donor?
That all depends. (Score:2)
Act now and get a healthy spleen for half-price.
Add a camera and a wi-fi connection... (Score:2)
But... (Score:3, Funny)
Get Something Cheaper (Score:5, Interesting)
That said, you can get a cheaper one. They are not as good, but... they're cheaper. Lynxmotion's Biped [lynxmotion.com], or the less fancy Parallax Todler [parallax.com].
Price (Score:5, Informative)
It's blind as a bat! sorry! (Score:4, Informative)
You must program each individual joint one by one, trial and erre style.
No feedback, no sensors, no remote control!
just memory for the movements
You might also want to check out megarobotics (Score:5, Informative)
English language site (Score:5, Informative)
...slight inaccuracy... (Score:3, Interesting)
Really? I had no idea that 17 different servos could be powered by one motor. How interesting.
In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic.
Lost in translation... (Score:2)
(There's a movie embedded half way down.)
No, that's its willy. Better work on that translation. :P
how long till its commercially viable? (Score:2)
But it wouldnt take to much extra engineering to turn such miniturized robots into battery powered metal go-to bots.
Certainly the complexities in getting these machines to take out the garbage or wash the windows may be out of the consumer markets range for some years....
but how difficult would it be to use such machines in a more remote control Wi-Fi sense? put a little webcam on its head, give him
mirror of the video (Score:4, Informative)
a mirror of the video
Heathkit HERO (Score:4, Interesting)
We had one in school, our science teacher had buddies at Heathkit. You programmed it in assembly, via a keypad on the top of the robot. I don't even remember if there was a way to load an instruction set into it, until later models came along.
There is a website [dsavage.net] dedicated to the good ol Hero. Back then (late 1980s) we were sure that by 2004 we'd all be living with robots like the ones in the new I,Robot movie. I guess it didn't really happen.
It would be cool if the I,Robot bad guy (only seen the trailer, they got THAT GUY, who always plays villans, to play the villan) had a HERO on his desk or something. Esp. since the USR company in the movie is supposed to be in Chicago, right across the lake and home of several Zenith facilities.
RoboSapien (Score:3, Interesting)
If that's not screaming to be hacked, hooked to a linux box, and used to terrify the cat, I don't know what is. And at 1/14th the price of the Korean `bot. It's not a kit though, which I know is a negative on Slashdot...
something similiar in the uk (Score:2, Interesting)
Another site (Score:3, Interesting)
Kopropo.com [kopropo.com]
Photos of these guys at the recent Robolympics (Score:5, Interesting)
Pretty damn impressive video (Score:4, Insightful)
I, Robot. (Score:2)
While I am impressed with the video (that it stood up to the Slasdotters) I have to question whether the actual robots will perform as shown?
Obligatory... (Score:2, Funny)
[Semi-OT] Has it REALLY gotten to the point... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Bipedal? (Score:2, Funny)
I'm glad they included that definiton for the
Yeah, cause otherwise, I would have thought it was a bike that swings both ways.
Re:quick someone give me a billion dollars (Score:3, Insightful)
Have fun programming a billion dollars worth of those things.
function dstry_enmy($target) { send_fire_signal(adj_arms(eyes_loc($target))); }
Re:quick someone give me a billion dollars (Score:2)
Maybe you would stand a chance?
Re:i, robot indeed (Score:3, Funny)
So, in other words, if Microsoft invents the positronic brain, builds millions of androids, develops a very long lasting power cell for them, sufficiently arms them, and actually programs them to take over the world, then they can end all life on the planet.
Re:Ok... (Score:3, Insightful)
Stand up, lift up your left foot, and lean to your left without putting down your left foot. It's obsurdly obvious you'll fall down because your center of gravity has shifted to much. This method does work for the robot, and it's not a "hack", because it's the
Re:Is it possible to build one cheaper ? (Score:3, Interesting)
The only thing that appears to be special about the servos is the position sensing. Based on someones translation of the page, you can program the robot by positioning its limbs and clicking a mouse button.
Since the servos only have three leads coming out of them (white, black and red like a regular RC servo) I'm going to guess that the servos are gutted of their electronics and