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Chairbot Walks You Around While You Sit
Posted by
samzenpus
on Wed Jun 06, 2007 08:19 PM
from the stop-using-your-legs-like-a-sucker dept.
from the stop-using-your-legs-like-a-sucker dept.
Gary writes "What do you get when you combine a robot and a chair? The Hubo FX-1 chairbot, of course. In what is perhaps my favorite robot design yet, this giant chair with legs looks like it came out of some ridiculous 80's sci-fi movie or something, but it's very, very real. HUBO FX-1 is two meters in height, and weighs 150 kg. The person sitting can control the robot easily using the built in joystick. Each ankle has a 3-axis force/torque sensor which measures the normal force and 2 moments. Each foot has an inclination sensor which measures the angle of the slope. Also, the rate gyro and the inclination sensor of the body allow the device to stabilize itself."
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Protecting us (Score:5, Funny)
Pak Chooie Unf!
If you're gonna build a chairbot, do it right... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:If you're gonna build a chairbot, do it right.. (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:If you're gonna build a chairbot, do it right.. (Score:5, Funny)
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Not enough capacity (Score:4, Funny)
LipoBot (Score:5, Funny)
LipoBot - Patent Pending.
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Chairbot Mech moves 3/5/0 (Score:5, Funny)
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Payback (Score:5, Funny)
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if I had a successful .com startup... (Score:5, Funny)
Steve Ballmer Version (Score:5, Funny)
It's a little large. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:It's a little large. (Score:5, Informative)
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May I be the first.... (Score:5, Funny)
Technical Paper (Score:5, Informative)
good timing (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, Dude, (Score:5, Funny)
Re:One thought (Score:5, Insightful)
Hey, they have to start somewhere!
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Re:One thought (Score:5, Funny)
This was my first thought. Wheels are no good on rough and uneven terrain.
I just wonder WTF would buy a 2m tall 2 legged monstrosity, when 6 short legs would be much simpler to control and balance. This thing is rediculously impractical.
Then I read the end of TFA about soldiers on these things with chain guns and rpgs. My internal school boy nearly wet himself."Sure it may be a huge target on an inherently unstable pedal configuration with an inability to assume a prone position or find effective cover, but hey, it's a bit like a Mech!"
Wankers.
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Re:One thought (Score:5, Interesting)
Whenever a new design for a 2-legged robot shows up, people immediately complain about how impractical bipedalism is and that the problem can easily be solved with more legs. But if that were the case, if there were no advantage to bipedalism, then bipedal organisms would not have shown up at all, let alone numerous times in separate groups of animals through history.
Once the balance problem has been solved, bipedal robots will be as fast and agile as bipedal humans, dinosaurs (avian and non-), etc. And then Will Smith will have to save us all from them.
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Re:One thought (Score:5, Funny)
With no armour whatsoever, a few million nanobots that eat ammunition would be more effective than tanks, _and_ they'd be completely uneffected by the tripwires that are so easy to set up in urban environments. Not nearly as exciting though.
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Re:One thought (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:One thought (Score:5, Informative)
To go hiking in the hills, walking over dunes on the beach, all the things that wheels aren't really suitable for.
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Toyota (Score:4, Informative)
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