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.
I welcome... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:quick someone give me a billion dollars (Score:3, Insightful)
Have fun programming a billion dollars worth of those things.
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Re:Most awesome robot EVER... (Score:5, Insightful)
Pretty damn impressive video (Score:4, Insightful)
[Semi-OT] Has it REALLY gotten to the point... (Score:3, Insightful)
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 exact same way you walk. It may not be that graceful, but the basic procedure we all use is being mirrored.
Since it's clear that this thing likely its tethered to it's controller...
You're unimpressed with the way it walks, so you've watched the clip on the page. Yet, you've watched the clip on the page and somehow missed completely that it wasn't tethered to anything at all?
I wonder if it would be possible to put more servos in controlling the angle of the pad. Then the pad comes down, and the unit senses if it's tipping, and corrects.
Congratulations. You just described fairly exactly how it works already.
In theory this should produce less waddling, and more realistic walking, right?
Since your theory is how it currently opperates, I'm going to guess the answer is.. no.
Verbal diahrea... (Score:1, Insightful)
I'll spell it out for you: For $1300 us you get this "robot" which is actually a bunch of interconnected servos. You can program "movement" for each server, and play it back. Yeah it looks cool, but it can't walk up to a ball and pick it up.
This thing is no artificial intelligence.
It has no "sight". No ability to see its environment and even make out a sinmple shape (like a ball).
It has no sensors. In other words you could program a fance running sequence, put him down and let him go... and if there's a wall in his way, he'll smack right into it.
It's not self-balancing. All movements are programmed in a sequence, and therefore you program it in a way that keeps it balanced. It won't balance itself.
The list goes on.... We're actually much "farther away" than YOU think.