humanoid pelvis!!

[Admin]

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

[annoyin_kid]

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.

[JonHylands]

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

[annoyin_kid]

didn't the one in the vid have 7 degrees of freedom?

[JonHylands]

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