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Posted by Hansrobo on June 23, 2006, 1:04 pm
This almost alive looking machine is called "Robotic Mule". Pretty
incredible achievement to me. It also has the appearance to be a
potentially practical robot.
http://www.jumpingpixels.com/robotics.html
Posted by on June 23, 2006, 2:00 pm
Really needs a head-The start of any great robotic project is a proper
head!
Pretty cool though!
Mark
Hansrobo wrote:
> This almost alive looking machine is called "Robotic Mule". Pretty > incredible achievement to me. It also has the appearance to be a > potentially practical robot. > http://www.jumpingpixels.com/robotics.html
Posted by John Nagle on June 24, 2006, 6:48 pm
Very nice. The old MIT Leg Lab guys are back in business.
John Nagle
castvee8@aol.com wrote:
> Really needs a head-The start of any great robotic project is a proper > head! > Pretty cool though! > > Mark > > Hansrobo wrote: >
>>This almost alive looking machine is called "Robotic Mule". Pretty >>incredible achievement to me. It also has the appearance to be a >>potentially practical robot. >>http://www.jumpingpixels.com/robotics.html
> >
Posted by dan michaels on June 24, 2006, 8:26 pm
John Nagle wrote:
> Very nice. The old MIT Leg Lab guys are back in business. > John Nagle
Exactly. I checked this out a few weeks ago, and noted that Marc
Raibert is one of the main guys at the company. Raibert build many of
the cool walkers at MIT leg lab in the 80s and early 90s.
He literally wrote the book on walking robots, for those interested in
kinematics.
"Legged Robots That Balance"
http://www.google.com/custom?q=raibert+legged+robots
Posted by John Nagle on June 24, 2006, 11:39 pm
I know; I have two copies of that book.
Raibert had a key insight in the 1980s, that balance
was more important than gait. But when he left
the Leg Lab to found Boston Dynamics, he couldn't
find any way to turn that into a business. Most of
the Boston Dynamics software was, for years, purely
kinematic. It's good to see he's doing dynamics again.
John Nagle
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dan michaels wrote:
> John Nagle wrote: >
>>Very nice. The old MIT Leg Lab guys are back in business. >> John Nagle
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> incredible achievement to me. It also has the appearance to be a
> potentially practical robot.
> http://www.jumpingpixels.com/robotics.html