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non-human humanoid robot designs links ? pogo 03-26-2008
Posted by pogo on March 26, 2008, 12:39 pm
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To springboard off a topic that Gordon inspired ...

Anyone know of any links/photos of non-human humanoid robot designs out there ?
Would love to see them! Even artwork .

( Sci American has a cool painting (?) on page 15 of their latest "Special
Edition on Robotics" issue which shows a couple of
humanoid but not quite human biped bots . I haven't found a link for it yet ... )

JCD


Posted by Rafael Deliano on March 26, 2008, 2:24 pm
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> photos of non-human humanoid robot designs out there ?

There have been telemanipulators early on that tried to
fit the machine to the operator: two arms, two cameras.

Mobot from Hughes:
http://www.embeddedforth.de/temp/mobot1.pdf

In Germany a similar system was Syntelmann.
Prototype early 70ies controlled by crude exoskeleton:
http://www.embeddedforth.de/temp/syn1.pdf
Long term plan: "astronaut" in space:
http://www.embeddedforth.de/temp/syn2.pdf
controlled by human from earth:
http://www.embeddedforth.de/temp/syn3.pdf
The mechanical part got complicated enough:
http://www.embeddedforth.de/temp/vertut.pdf
not to mention the lack of capable electronics & computers
in those days.

The basic idea to model the telemanipulator to the operator
is still viable, although there are hardly many such
projects now.

MfG JRD

Posted by pogo on March 26, 2008, 4:53 pm
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>> photos of non-human humanoid robot designs out there ?

This one below is what I am talking about! The Mobot ... not so much.

> In Germany a similar system was Syntelmann.
> Prototype early 70ies controlled by crude exoskeleton:
> http://www.embeddedforth.de/temp/syn1.pdf


Thanks!

Posted by Rafael Deliano on March 27, 2008, 3:58 am
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> This one below is what I am talking about!
>> Syntelmann.
The prototype was always two cameras and two arms,
the "artists impression" of about 1970 was
long-term-&-unlimited-funding.

There is some recent research and literature
http://www.embeddedforth.de/temp/r1.pdf
about walking biped machines.
BARt-UH ( about 2002 )
http://www.embeddedforth.de/temp/r2.pdf
was the prototype for JOHNNIE ( about 2003 )
http://www.embeddedforth.de/temp/r3.pdf
done at University Hannover, TU Munich.
There is some "private research" too:
http://www.austrobots.com/

Availability of cheap, compact, low-power accelerometers/gyros
certainly does help.
But i cannot see a similar breakthrough in the power-supply
that would be necessary.
The exoskeletons of the 50ies/60ies were roughly based on the
assumption that anything down to the cigarette lighter would
soon go nuclear anyway.

MfG JRD

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