Chairbot Walks You Around While You Sit 241
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."
Protecting us (Score:5, Funny)
Pak Chooie Unf!
If you're gonna build a chairbot, do it right... (Score:5, Funny)
Not enough capacity (Score:4, Funny)
Go Neimoidian Culture! (Score:2, Funny)
Chairbot Mech moves 3/5/0 (Score:5, Funny)
Payback (Score:5, Funny)
if I had a successful .com startup... (Score:5, Funny)
Steve Ballmer Version (Score:5, Funny)
May I be the first.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:If you're gonna build a chairbot, do it right.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:If you're gonna build a chairbot, do it right.. (Score:3, Funny)
By rotating this circle each leg would be able to grip onto the floor and help the engine propel you in the direction you want to go in.
Re:Chairbot Mech moves 3/5/0 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Payback (Score:5, Funny)
good timing (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Ok, Dude, (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not enough capacity (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ok, Dude, (Score:3, Funny)
Hiking is always such a strain on the buttocks (Score:2, Funny)
Re:If you're gonna build a chairbot, do it right.. (Score:5, Funny)
LipoBot (Score:5, Funny)
LipoBot - Patent Pending.
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.
Re:If you're gonna build a chairbot, do it right.. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:One thought (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Chairbot Mech moves 3/5/0 (Score:1, Funny)
Re:One thought (Score:2, Funny)
Because I need it to move from my desk to management whenever they have IT-problems so that they understand the particulars of our relationship.
"Oh no, IT-support is thundering our way. It'd better be a real problem this time and not just someone who forgot to plug in the ethernet cable, or else there will be smiting."
Re:LipoBot (Score:3, Funny)
But only in Soviet Russia.
--Rob
Re:If you're gonna build a chairbot, do it right.. (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, I think you've just named my next band.