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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

this is a pretty cool site for ppl interested in robotics.

http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html
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rklee · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 12:15 am Post subject:

That is interesting... although I would argue if it was the first... it depends on your definition of a robot. Here's the mechanical duck I was telling you about...

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/pynchon/vaucanson.html
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rklee · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 12:30 am Post subject:

Ya... this was discussed in my class... although it is an amazing achievement cause the dynamics of the robot is very complicated....
However I think the current Japanese mechanical designs have not improved much. They're all still Asimo like.... they solved problems Asimo has in achieving running or jumping by shrinking the robot...
Although the dynamics of the system is really quite impressive to be able to calculate... I think we need a more self balancing or self correcting mechanism or electromechanism. We do not have to recalculate exactly every electrical signal to our body parts every time we want to move. I'm still waiting to see the next generation of bipeds. It should be very interesting...
However I sometimes wonder as to why we are focusing so much on bipedals... It's 'cool' to make it look like us and also our homes and stuff are built for bipeds, also other things like more efficient over long distances, but still I think for most practical applications currently, more legs are good... at least for redundancy. I've seen hexapods jump, climb, dig, and do a lot more stuff.
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