Korean Bipedal Robot Kit 190
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.
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!
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.
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
Re: Can't tell (Score:3, Informative)
Direct video link (Score:1, Informative)
You might also want to check out megarobotics (Score:5, Informative)
English language site (Score:5, Informative)
mirror of the video (Score:4, Informative)
a mirror of the video
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...
Re:Another Robot... (Score:5, Informative)
Some pictures of this thing (Score:2, Informative)