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Could it be true?

0100111001010101001110010101 Posts: 1
edited 2008-11-17 02:07 in Robotics
Hi everybody, i'm new here.
I'm looking for some information about the robot you can see in this youtube's link:

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=Itv0aRyCouM

Can anybody help me understand if this is true or false?
The video looks amazing to me but i never heard about italian robotic technology.
I heard something about the japanese but never about italians...
Could you answer to the title's question?

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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2008-11-06 17:09
    Gotta be a fake. Any Asimo look-alike that could stand on one leg would have tons of press by now. But there isn't any other info available on it, so it's some staged gag.

    Andiamo, Italia! In bocca al lupo!

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  • vrossivrossi Posts: 38
    edited 2008-11-06 17:17
    Hi.

    I can't be sure, but the videos and the whole site (http://www.beatbit.it/) seem just fake.

    There is also a video where the "robot" solves the Rubik cube in 3 seconds.
    In the site there is no information about the research center which developed it. The site does not contain any useful technical info, and it is not even available an English version.

    I am italian and I have read also the interviews to the "Engineers" of the company.
    Here is an example (my translation from page http://www.beatbit.it/interviste_brevi.php#movimento ):
    Question: How many degrees of freedom has this robot?
    Answer: Bit Beat has a complete freedom of movement, a goal we reached after years of study and development.

    I think no real robotic expert would give such an answer. Of course, this is just my personal opinion.

    This does not mean that Italian robotics projects are not advanced: see for example this humanoid robot www.pal-robotics.com/team.html, which is built by a company in Dubai, whose project leader is an Italian engineer.
  • gelfling6gelfling6 Posts: 60
    edited 2008-11-13 23:24
    from what I saw, especially with the robot placing its hand in front of it's face near the end as it tried to balance, struck me as too humanistic to wipe something from its face.. Also the tilting of the head (like a dog does when you say something it doesn't understand.) seemed too staged..

    I post my vote for "Faked".

    Rates as bad as the infrared video someone did on YouTube, claiming it was someone passing gas, except the gas cloud, was cold (Black) instead of white (Warm), and too concentrated a stream to be passing through cloth (pants) (turned out to be a can of dusting gas (tetraflouroethane.)) tongue.gifskull.gifshocked.gifnono.gif

    Post Edited (gelfling6) : 11/13/2008 11:38:57 PM GMT
  • DgswanerDgswaner Posts: 795
    edited 2008-11-14 15:33
    This should not leave any doubt (that's its fake)

    http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=MgGeGEDKAdE&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_91431

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  • robots42robots42 Posts: 27
    edited 2008-11-17 02:07
    Just go to http://www.bitbeat.it/
    The intro video shows you how they did it with CGI overlays on live action.
    How did I find out?
    The address is on the YouTube videos!
    The videos must be adverts for whatever the makers or BitBeat do.
    David
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