Dante74 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Found this while cruizin' the web and thought I'd share. Looks pretty cool, but it's rather expensive. The site states that it's 'an open development platform'. Check out the video's to see it play football etc. Robonova site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Found this while cruizin' the web and thought I'd share. Looks pretty cool, but it's rather expensive. The site states that it's 'an open development platform'. Check out the video's to see it play football etc. Robonova site I'll be the first out with the obligatory quip: "Does it have a GERWALK mode?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-ZeroOne Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 IIRC, these are aimed at small-scale robotics research for universities and the like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwinges Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 The open platform is somewhat cool. I've looked at the software and how you program the robot. It's kind of like stop-motion filming. You position the robot in say position 1 then hit enter. Next you chain the next movement to that by moving the joints slightly and hit enter again. You do this repeatedly to have a series of movements. there some pretty cool videos on youtube of these doing karate forms and stuff like that. There is also a guy in Japan who rigged his with a full body remote control that his kid wears during robot battle competitions. Whatever the kid does the robot does. They have dominated the robot battle competitions from what I've heard. Assembly doesn't look too tough, neither does the programming...I'd get one if I new how to make a full body controller. Overall they are pretty neat and will set you back a grand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oihan Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Watching the football video...those things are cool! The fact that they can do cartwheels and fall over only to get back up. I can't wait till this kind of stuff is more mainstream and we're seeing human size versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macross73 Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 The open platform is somewhat cool. I've looked at the software and how you program the robot. It's kind of like stop-motion filming. You position the robot in say position 1 then hit enter. Next you chain the next movement to that by moving the joints slightly and hit enter again. You do this repeatedly to have a series of movements. there some pretty cool videos on youtube of these doing karate forms and stuff like that. There is also a guy in Japan who rigged his with a full body remote control that his kid wears during robot battle competitions. Whatever the kid does the robot does. They have dominated the robot battle competitions from what I've heard. Assembly doesn't look too tough, neither does the programming...I'd get one if I new how to make a full body controller. Overall they are pretty neat and will set you back a grand. Agreed. Having a remote would be more fun. The idea of having to program each and every step isnt very exciting to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwinges Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Agreed. Having a remote would be more fun. The idea of having to program each and every step isnt very exciting to me. That's why I'm passing on one for now. However I'm starting to wonder if the control software would work for something like a tachkoma from ghost in the shell SAC. I think there was a link within the sci and tech super thread showing one of these doing karate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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