Find me Biped Designs!

[Admin]

Ok, I have made the decision to go to Japan and compete in the Robo-one competition for either '07 or '08, depending on when it is and my schedule.

So I want to make my first biped, for real this time and not keep quiting when it looks too hard/expensive . . .

I figure it would be nice to have a bunch of designs from various other servo driven bipeds to draw ideas off of.

So if anyone finds good specs, or closeup images where you can make out the mechanics/electronics of a robo-one like biped, please post!

To start off, I am posting the robonova specs:
http://www.hitecrobotics.com/robonova/specs.htm
Unfortunately those images are a little low on resolution . . . anyone have access to better closeups, or even the assembly manual for it?

[Gopher]

Well, dunno about designs but I found the actual rules for Robo-One posted here. They're called unofficial because they were independently translated from the official japanese rules. That site also has some info on various custom RO 'bots.

[Admin]

Futaba is releasing a new biped . . .

http://www.botmag.com/articles/futaba_humanoid_robot.shtml

Has tons of closeup pics of the design, including electronics

[Charlie1138]

Does it have to be humanoid? There was a great raptor style dinosaur design. I think it was made at MIT. I will try to find it again.

[Admin]

I just found a video of the futaba bot . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce9AswIM4ls&eurl=

it can do headstands, and 'walks' like a really fast old lady . . .

[Charlie1138]

http://people.csail.mit.edu/hofma/Assets/TroodyPic.JPG

Here it is.. The robots name is Troody. It's really ccreepy watching it run. You've probably seen this before though.

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/mpeg_vcd/videos/troody.mpg

They have some other bipedal desings on this page as well..

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/mpeg_vcd/

[Admin]

Found a good closeup image here
http://www.lynxmotion.com/images/jpg/ironmanl.jpg

[Admin]

robot magazine has a robo-one article with many closeup pics . . .
http://www.botmag.com/articles/robo_one_ten.shtml

this is an interesting article on the servos most common to robo-one builders:
http://robosavvy.com/KHR1Info/2

and this is where you can buy the servos, assuming you can read japanese:
http://www.kondo-robot.com/html/Products_Servo.html

[JesseWelling]

Not to bad I think.
http://www.botmag.com/articles/manoi_1.shtml
especialy this drawing which might be very usefull for ideas:
http://www.botmag.com/images/articles/manoi_18.jpg

[Arislan]

That KRS-4014S servo sells for $170!! Has a hell of a torque though...

[Admin]

Today I was looking for dates of the Robo-One in 2007 and 2008, neither I could find . . . Anyone know?

Anyway, I found something else worth looking at if your interested in biped robots.

Two web link lists of many of the competitors websites!
http://masayuki.style.coocan.jp/hp/robowiki/?0N0-ONE%20GP%202006
http://a.hatena.ne.jp/robot/image

Since I cant speak japanese, Im relying on pics like these . . .
http://www.geocities.jp/dr_giy/

let the 'wtf am i clicking on?' click fest begin! 

or babelfish it if your less lazy than me . . .

[Hal9000]

I'd say robonova sucks. That one that turns into a spider and does stuff............that's the stuff right there.

[Militoy]

From the English translation of the Japanese web page, it looks like the deadline to register for the 2007 Robo-One event is Jan 20. The event will be held on Jan 27 and 28 - and some of the times of various events were still in a state of flux as of Dec 21. It doesn't appear that they have set a date for the 2008 event yet - but I would guess that it's very likely to take place early next year.

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/?wb_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robo%2Done.com&wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2

[boney]

  hey don't know much about bipeds

but anyways all da best for da competition