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General Misc => Robot Videos => Topic started by: hgordon on September 28, 2007, 08:35:56 AM

Title: lighter-than-air and underwater robots - these are incredible !
Post by: hgordon on September 28, 2007, 08:35:56 AM
Check out this video -

    http://www.festo.com/INetDomino/coorp_sites/en/22ff224c0cba8e40c12572d60033d076.htm

The underwater version is also quite amazing -

    http://www.festo.com/INetDomino/coorp_sites/en/1062ed74c808d1b1c12572d0004bb182.htm

Title: Re: lighter-than-air and underwater robots - these are incredible !
Post by: Admin on September 28, 2007, 10:45:09 AM
Yea I saw these a few months ago, and although they look cool/unique, I dont trust the video editing. :-\

Robotics has too many people editing out parts where the robot doesnt work in their videos . . . They only publish the video of it working that rare 10% . . . know what I mean? And these videos just reak of it . . .

I have done this in the past, too . . . but I try to make it a point to use/encourage long unedited clear shots to prove reliability and functionality . . .

rant rant rant :P
Title: Re: lighter-than-air and underwater robots - these are incredible !
Post by: MadMax on September 28, 2007, 05:34:15 PM
rant rant rant continues...
 
Gusts of wind? High water-pressure under water? They don't seem sturdy enough to withstand those kind of things. Or is that me just being nit-picky?
Title: Re: lighter-than-air and underwater robots - these are incredible !
Post by: hgordon on September 29, 2007, 08:55:46 AM
Yea I saw these a few months ago, and although they look cool/unique, I dont trust the video editing. :-\

They definitely took an artsy approach with the music and editing, but the fluidity of motion was impressive.  You probably caught the developer's segment on Talking Robots - http://lis.epfl.ch/resources/podcast/mp3/TalkingRobots-RudolfBannasch.mp3 .  It was interesting to hear him talk about the efficiency of the penguin's design - wasn't it 180km of travel on 1kg of krill == 1500km on 1 liter of pure jet fuel ?
Title: Re: lighter-than-air and underwater robots - these are incredible !
Post by: ed1380 on September 29, 2007, 09:37:12 AM
I bet they stole admins fin design to make this  ;D
Title: Re: lighter-than-air and underwater robots - these are incredible !
Post by: SmAsH on January 11, 2008, 07:59:13 PM
so fake! and poor admin... >:( oh oh i got an idea lets kill them!