Society of Robots - Robot Forum
General Misc => Robot Videos => Topic started by: Admin on February 13, 2007, 10:14:45 AM
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so these guys one-up Asimo to show that adding a pelvis to your humanoid robot can greatly enhance walking ability . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEpk-MmoO0A
in the second half of the video, they give another demonstration of the walking (wheel?) chair
if you look carefully, you will notice its tethered . . .
previous information on it was originally posted here:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=305.0
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in the second half of the video, they give another demonstration of the walking (wheel?) chair
na man they are saying a wheel chair wouldn't be able to do that but their robot can.
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Here's a link to the home-page for that first pevis-enabled robot:
http://www.takanishi.mech.waseda.ac.jp/research/wabian/index.htm
39 degrees of freedom...
- Jon
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didn't the one in the vid have 7 degrees of freedom?
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No, I think they were saying each leg has 7 degrees of freedom.
Of course, that's not saying much. Each leg in MicroRaptor has seven degrees of freedom also...
- Jon