OK... so long as you can just keep that thought to certain times...
Weird - it looks to me like the forearms are too long.
I notice it still uses the Asimo-style weight-shifting-side-to-side walk. It means it's constantly in balance, unlike human walking which is about constantly falling over.
Cherry 2000, here i come?
In a couple of years these robots will know how to cook, do laundry and everything else a guy needs. Guess what's gonna happen.
She's either walking on eggshells or trying to make it to the loo without having an "accident" ...
It's to do with how these things balance. Look at the hips - the robot clearly shifts its bodyweight to one side, so that its C-of-G is directly over the foot that's still on the ground. It can go as slowly as it likes, and even stop mid-stride without falling over.
You do the same if you tip-toe slowly. But, if you were to actually freeze in the middle of a regular stride, with one foot raised, you'd just fall over sideways.
They haven't yet cracked the knack of making a biped work out where to place its foot to counter a toppling moment, much less then push off that foot for the next stride. That 4-legged pack mule thing the US army want has just about got the hang of it, but then four legs gives it an advantage from the start. When Asimo can sprint over a pile of rubble, then I'll be impressed.
like Asimo before it, these 'bots do start to fool you into unconscious anthropomorphising, which does give you that kind of creepy doubling effect when you're working out how you'd interact with it.
as a technical tour de force, they're very impressive - but as some have already pointed out, their computationally intensive method of statically balanced locomotion is probably a technical dead-end.
They haven't yet cracked the knack of making a biped work out where to place its foot to counter a toppling moment, much less then push off that foot for the next stride.
Oh yes they have.
There was one of those James May things on TV a couple of months back, where they showed a robot that did just that - walked like a human, i.e. continuously "falling over". It could even run. The walking/running of this machine was pretty incredible to watch - it was pretty much indistinguishable from human walking (even though the robot didn't look human).
There was one of those James May things on TV a couple of months back, where they showed a robot that did just that - walked like a human, i.e. continuously "falling over". It could even run. The walking/running of this machine was pretty incredible to watch - it was pretty much indistinguishable from human walking (even though the robot didn't look human).
it's fairly ironic to think that, actually, the key to getting a machine to doing this is actually, don't try and work it all out - let it do it itself, just as in nature where animals start of with a basic set of tools and develop their abilities over time. These self adapting systems have proven they are far more capable at something approximating natural behaviours time and time again.
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Weird - it looks to me like the forearms are too long.
I notice it still uses the Asimo-style weight-shifting-side-to-side walk. It means it's constantly in balance, unlike human walking which is about constantly falling over.
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In a couple of years these robots will know how to cook, do laundry and everything else a guy needs. Guess what's gonna happen.
It's to do with how these things balance. Look at the hips - the robot clearly shifts its bodyweight to one side, so that its C-of-G is directly over the foot that's still on the ground. It can go as slowly as it likes, and even stop mid-stride without falling over.
You do the same if you tip-toe slowly. But, if you were to actually freeze in the middle of a regular stride, with one foot raised, you'd just fall over sideways.
They haven't yet cracked the knack of making a biped work out where to place its foot to counter a toppling moment, much less then push off that foot for the next stride. That 4-legged pack mule thing the US army want has just about got the hang of it, but then four legs gives it an advantage from the start. When Asimo can sprint over a pile of rubble, then I'll be impressed.
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It reminds me of the ELO tune "Yours Truely"
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as a technical tour de force, they're very impressive - but as some have already pointed out, their computationally intensive method of statically balanced locomotion is probably a technical dead-end.
If it falls over then it needs to say "I'm sorry I hurt your fist master".
Oh yes they have.
There was one of those James May things on TV a couple of months back, where they showed a robot that did just that - walked like a human, i.e. continuously "falling over". It could even run. The walking/running of this machine was pretty incredible to watch - it was pretty much indistinguishable from human walking (even though the robot didn't look human).
it's fairly ironic to think that, actually, the key to getting a machine to doing this is actually, don't try and work it all out - let it do it itself, just as in nature where animals start of with a basic set of tools and develop their abilities over time. These self adapting systems have proven they are far more capable at something approximating natural behaviours time and time again.