It walks!!

[Tumble]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...4+legged+robot

Very clever.....

[Ross Stone]

OMG thats very cool.

I want one!!

[Dav0s]

2 midgets with metal ont heir heads?

[midzt]

very clever, not the most covert tho.

[XA04]

That's amazing but quite scary at the same time

[Syd]

That is impressive - but it is also a bit worrying:

"It doesn't eat, it doesn't sleep,

It will never stop...................It will hunt you down.....

Whew, must be gettin paranoid

[Butuz]

Freaks me out that vid! Robopigdog :|

Very impressive engineering though, particularly the kick recovery.

But like the daleks - it cant climb steps yet

Butuz

[XA04]

Originally Posted by Butuz

Freaks me out that vid! Robopigdog :|

Very impressive engineering though, particularly the kick recovery.

But like the daleks - it cant climb steps yet

Butuz

Yet..

[rox0r]

Elevate!!

[FatalSaviour]

Tis very cool though

[htid]

Originally Posted by Butuz

Freaks me out that vid! Robopigdog :|

Very impressive engineering though, particularly the kick recovery.Butuz

Me too! Its too realistic! The kick recovery looks just like a real deer or something (i actually felt sorry for the poor thing )

[Rave]

So they've managed to program a feedback loop to keep the robot upright that works about as fast as a human brain- gyro says they're tipping over, leg kicks out to compensate. Given that processors run at 3ghz+ nowadays that's cool but not IMO amazing.

The first sony Sony QRIO video I ever say I thought really WAS amazing. Sadly I can't find it but I found this which is still pretty cool. After about 2m30s they start doing some Para Para which is pretty impressive.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...93547034908878

[Butuz]

The thing is Rave, those sony robots are simply programed each to do their own moves and steps - it just happens that all the robots do the moves in synchronisation because a humuan in a sony shirt timed them to the millisecond.

If you pushed one of them with your finger, it would fall over and carry on doing its little dance flat on its back. Nothing really spectacular there. Infact you can go buy 4 robots that will do exactly that now. Hitec Robonova. £600 each but if you spent enough time you could program them all to dance in synchronisation for 3 minutes.

Totally diffetent to having a robot that can react to changin surroundings in order to carry on doing its job.

Butuz

[bledd]

i'd like to see it tackle fairly liquid or damp leaves! (or both )

very impressive tho

[Rave]

Originally Posted by Butuz

The thing is Rave, those sony robots are simply programed each to do their own moves and steps - it just happens that all the robots do the moves in synchronisation because a humuan in a sony shirt timed them to the millisecond.

If you pushed one of them with your finger, it would fall over and carry on doing its little dance flat on its back. Nothing really spectacular there. Infact you can go buy 4 robots that will do exactly that now. Hitec Robonova. £600 each but if you spent enough time you could program them all to dance in synchronisation for 3 minutes.

Totally diffetent to having a robot that can react to changin surroundings in order to carry on doing its job.

Butuz

Fair dos. Apparently Asimo can shake hands and keep himself upright though:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,141597,00.html

[bsodmike]

The reaction to the shove is pretty impressive. The way it recovers from it's tilting centre of gravity is quite astonishing really. Love it... /* speechless */...