iGAV said:
top stuff....
check this out... a way of safely getting you home after one too many at the pub... FANTASTIC!!
great find...
Yeah, but you'd end up ralphing over the side of your robot even more than you would have if you walked using your own legs--did you see how much side to side sway that thing had in the video?
Does illustrate an interesting solution to balance problems, though; these 'bots all solve the walking problem by shifting their weight side to side so they can balance on one foot, therefore removing the issue of speedy leg motion or the problems of the "controlled fall" that we use to walk.
I do wonder if Honda doesn't have something up their sleeve; you figure they (probably) got a lot of experience out of Asimo, so they may well have a second generation on the way.
Of this "contest", thoguh, looks like Sony is winning--not surprising, considering the experience they picked up with the Aibo as a marketable product.
I do wonder if any of these are ever going to ammount to much more than toys, though; there are a lot of practical uses for robotics, but how many of them reallyneed a humanoid shape?