Comments on: An agile humanoid robot

By: asiwel

asiwel — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:23:48 +0000

Heck, I liked this little robot … maybe a bit slow, a little awkward, and pretty expensive .. but I enjoyed the video and appreciated the work. Certainly not a toy but not too complicated either ….

By: tik

tik — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:50:33 +0000

Unimpressive!

By: Stanley Honour

Stanley Honour — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:29:57 +0000

The side to side rocking motion is de-stabilizing and clumsy to say the least.
the Japanese have already developed a robotic pelvis that dampens out this motion and creates a much smoother, more natural, and suprisingly more Efficient gate. Asimov does not have this yet, different company.

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:42:09 +0000

Robney;)

By: dave

dave — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:36:55 +0000

Robama!

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:27:47 +0000

At 20 grand, I want to know how many miles to the gallon it gets, and if it’s available as a lease. More seriously, if it were dextrous enough to be a useful worker, it would still be a bargin at 20,000. A human costs far more than that to employ for a forty hour work week, and of coursethere is no pension.

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:24:46 +0000

In just a few years, robots have developed a tremendous amount. By 2024 AI is supposed to be practically here. I wouldn’t bet against a robot team beating humans by that year. That’s eleven to twelve years from now. They should be awe-inspiring by then!

By: melajara

melajara — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:32:04 +0000

Sorry but I’m not impressed.

Sure it’s open source but at $20’000, still way too expensive.
Granted you can shave at least 50% from the bill when building the robot yourself but still, most probably it has a ridiculous autonomy (hence the DARPA grand challenge to make those robots really autonomous and not only ridiculously expensive TOYS).

Alas, I’m not seeing artificial muscles (interspersed with moulded battery cells acting as “flesh+fat”) but just old fashioned servos (granted there are 20 of them to be coordinated, not bad).

It pales in comparison with Asimo, but wait, Asimo is worth several millions dollars, actually it is so expensive that nobody knows the real figure!

And here we are with hype, hype and hype again but not so much progress for having those personal robotic assistants able to do the simplest menial job at an affordable cost.

But circa 2020, it will be a different story, hopefully.

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:49:01 +0000

@Erich: Wrong country.

By: erichlof

erichlof — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:42:58 +0000

Maybe a combo of this and a military-style exoskeleton would give it a boost in the velocity department (both walking speed and kicking speed)?

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:19:05 +0000

That gets my vote.

By: Kristof77

Kristof77 — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:11:46 +0000

I watched this video hoping to be impressed…. ehh let down

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:02:11 +0000

Assuming such a game is possible, I would bet you 1000 dollars that it won’t happen by 2024.

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:59:24 +0000

@Gorden: They should built a politic-bot, no matter what it does, it could only better our politics.

By: Homer

Homer — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:45:25 +0000

There’s a prediction I’ve heard often that by 2050, a robotic soccer team will be able to defeat the human World Cup champions. I think that timeline is ridiculously conservative. I give them till 2022.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:21:50 +0000

This is from the University of Bonn, so of course it plays soccer. In 18 months Cal Tech will have one that picks up a basketball and throws it in the general direction of the net. In three years MIT will come out with a design that dribbles the ball and gets nothing but net. In four-and-a-half years the Texas Aggies will have a punter that can kick the ball through the goal posts and in six years there will be a team of robots running down the field, making lateral passes, throwing the long bomb, and tackling each other. You’ll see this by Thanksgiving of 2018.

By: Neo

Neo — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:56:41 +0000

very agile indeed…. this is the next Messi. lol don’t gt me wrong, we need to increase their speed now.