Bike riding humanoid robot

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

Humanoid robots usually bore me to tears, but I was mesmerized by the video on this page:

http://robosavvy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=32542

-Phil

Martin_H

That was pointless and cool at the same time.

LoopyByteloose

From the looks of it, it is about 1/5th scale. And of course, only a Japanese would find the 'true grit' to make this work.

What is it that is said??? "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." Maybe that can be taken to a new level. "A robot needs a bicycle like is man needs a ....."

erco

And bike riding seems so natural for us humans, until someone throws an inverter into the control circuit :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5qPfN_Mf9Q

skylight

I don't see it as being pointless,after all a robots got to get to work somehow!

Only problem I can see is where would it put it's lunchbox?

skylight

erco wrote: »

And bike riding seems so natural for us humans, until someone throws an inverter into the control circuit :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5qPfN_Mf9Q

Now that IS pointless!!

Spiral_72

Yea and at about $1400 for the bot alone!
http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/554

Gosh, I wish "I" had seventeen serial servos at my disposal. It'd make my biped much easier to implement