#bipedal robot

[roboticsappreciationsociety]

By Loz Blain, October 08, 2023

"Disney is getting very good at combining the art of character animation with the science of bipedal robotics, and the results are … adorable."

"Unveiled at the IEEE IROS conference in Detroit last week, this new, unnamed robot is clearly based on the BD-1 designed for 2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order video game, developed by Respawn Entertainment."

"In order to make him look more friendly and appealing, BD-1 was designed to mimic some dog-like behaviors. When he's curious about something, he'll tilt his head. His antennae are able to rotate, and they mimic the movements of a dog's ears. He comes across as earnest, inquisitive and downright adorable."

[pastabuilt]

industrial machinery

[toacody]

LEGO Redemptor Dreadnought

ONWARD, BROTHERS!

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Creator: demon14082000

[gender-trash]

Heard about the Beijing robot marathon and immediately thought of your earlier post about how China is a great place to be for robotics. Thoughts on it?

never heard of it but from this article it sounds HILARIOUS. the entire premise is stupid though -- if you want to quickly and efficiently move a robot from point A to point B, what you want is WHEELS or, if for some reason you absolutely can't use wheels, at least something with enough legs to be passively stable. humanoids are a terrible form factor for this; they will be much less reliable and consume much more energy (i.e., you need bigger batteries and/or more battery swaps, and guess what, the only practical place to put a battery in a bipedal humanoid is in the torso, making the balance problem worse). humanoids are a terrible form factor for a lot of things. i don't know why people are so obsessed with building humanoids even though they are so bad. true to form, less than a third of the robot contestants even finished the race, one of them faceplanted at the starting line, and even the fastest took twice as long as the fastest human runner to finish. classic humanoid moment tbhhhhh

(also real quick i want to clarify that i Don't Know a ton about the chinese robotics startup scene, certainly not enough to make a broad statement like 'china is a great place to be for robotics' -- the point i was trying to make in that post was much narrower. like, there are certainly advantages to being physically near shenzhen but that's far from the only factor affecting robotics startups, you know? sorry for being an insufferable pedant on main, it will happen again,,)

[stevebattle]

OmniCovered (2004) by Takeshi Maeda, Vstone, Osaka. OmniCovered is a bipedal humanoid competition robot developed for ROBO-ONE 6. Instead of aluminium sheet metal, it has a fibreglass reinforced plastic (FRP) frame, with a white exterior made of laminated ABS resin. It uses new Hitec HSR-5995TG ultra-torque robot servos, and the image processing required the faster Renesas 40MHz 32-bit SH-2 CPU. Its chest bears the autograph of Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, who was impressed when he saw another of Takeshi Maeda's robots in Tokyu Hands (東急ハンズ, Tōkyū Hanzu), a chain of Japanese hobby stores.

"Saturday, qualifying round. Dual sword fighting, image processing balloon popping, and 15cm climbing were all successful, but I ended up in 2nd place. I lost to A-Do again… If I think about it, I was also arrogant, thinking that if all the demonstrations were successful, along with the monocoque exterior, I would be able to qualify for first place. … Sunday, main game. He was suddenly hit by the robot equipped with the Dynamixel servos (ROBOTIS) that I was afraid of, and was defeated in the first round." – Takeshi Maeda, Robotan Production Diary.

At ROBO-ONE 6, OmniCovered came 2nd in the qualifying rounds, but lost in the first game of the finals.

[missmisnomer]

Beep boop.

Drawing robots.

[byrdstrolls]

people will claim to be robotfuckers and then be like *posts conventionally attractive bipedal robot* I have read all three x reader fanfictions on AO3 about auto from walle. We are not the same

[crunchybeards]

Procrastination game so good I procrastinate on the shit that I do when I procratinate.

[ultra-phthalo]

Name: Plexus Size: Small Altmode: Sundew Info: Artist and writer, turned space fleet navigator. Alt is a sedentary plant. He can attach himself to any surface. The cybertronian plant disguise allows him to avoid anything that isn't familiar with 'Metallic Botany'.

[catenary-chad]

yeah I like the weird idea of Electra as a marionette the longer I think about it. Widespread and relatively old technique, depends on delicate, particular, tensioned wires. I want to say you could get a lot of control over a full-body figure with 80s era computer tech and the right mechanical controller on top. Head (and only the head) could be battery powered for blinking/sound/some expressions ala how only lights and controls on most electric trains are and that would probably be light enough to suspend.

Now I’m weirdly curious if/where this has been done irl, I know I’ve encountered machines in old arcades where you can pay a quarter to hit buttons to make a small marionette move. Very likely too fragile to be very practical for the constant cycles of shows and especially dark rides but hmmm, it just feels like something a weird little European theme park would do since they’re a lot more influenced by local doll/puppet traditions. Phantasialand’s old rides and shows are a great example, and it’s even in the same general region as Bochum. This might be the single instance where I’ll buy into Electra being ~fragile and weak~ because I think the symbolism otherwise works so well.

edit: found a very German modern example

[torchiiko]

at this ppoint idk what conventionally attractive means for characters anymore. my taste is so skewed & im in circles where ppl mostly feel the same i just cant tell,, i knoe what it means for characters who more closely resemble humans but like. how many Non brainrotted ppl are down to kiss a guy whose face is literally just a phone

how far from human looking does a character have to stray before it starts getting hard to tell if theyre attractive on an objective level

[starryeyed-seer]

Im close to being done with big work project and I can't wait to get back on things. I have crustaceans to draw *_* and tigers.

[vampirecatprince]

There just something about the dichotomy of guy who's a sadistic serial killer, guy who's smart enough to make working bipedal ambulatory robots in the 1980s, and guy who's oddly childish and used said insane technological advances to make his fursona a singing dancing rabbit that makes Afton sm fun?

It's such an odd mix and I love it.

[stevebattle]

OmniHead (2003) by Takeshi Maeda, Vstone, Osaka. OmniHead is a bipedal humanoid competition robot, developed for the ROBO-ONE 4 contest.  Specialist servos for robots had not been yet been developed, so it's based on the SANWA ERG-VB designed for radio-controlled cars. The CPU is a 16MHz Hitachi H8.

"Around August 2002 I went to see the 2nd ROBO-ONE tournament and started to think it would be much more fun to participate than to watch. The current idea is as follows. It will use radio-controlled servos; Initially, I'll use the servos as is, but eventually I would like to control the motor current myself from the internal potentiometer value. Start with 6 degrees of freedom x 2 on one leg, add 2 degrees of freedom at the waist, and add 2 degrees of freedom on each arm with 4 degrees of freedom. I want to make the knee and ankle front and rear axes double joints to create a 'soft-body robot.' … It's challenging to participate in Robo-One because I'm so busy with work and a crying creature comes to my house at night, but I ended up being able to spend about 1.5 days out of my three-day weekend working on the robot. … I was able to attach an omnidirectional camera and called it "omni-head." – Takeshi Maeda, Robotan Production Diary.

In August 2003 at ROBO-ONE 4, OmniHead came 2nd in the preliminary round and 2nd place in the final, runner-up to A-Do.

[rihkal]

Albert HUBO by KAIST and Hanson Robotics (2005)

[mossandfog]

China to Host Human Vs. Robot Half Marathon Race

Well, it’s begun. Our era of humanoid robots interacting with us in real, tangible ways. In April, Beijing is hosting a half marathon where humans will compete alongside bipedal (walking/running) robots. The 21-kilometer race will showcase over 12,000 determined human runners alongside more than 20 teams of cutting-edge humanoid robots, developed by leading manufacturers from across the…