Indeed, a humanoid can have a lot of complexity and complicated motions, and one with 22 servos is a long ways from one with only two. But just take a look at what you can do with only two servos, in the links provided by Ken Gracey, for a dancing and skating Penguin robot! As owner of both a humanoid and a Penguin biped, I can see a merging point of applications and capabilities. For example, one can develop applications with a lot of the same elements such as mechanics, servos, IR, photocells, remote control, robot operating system, and ultrasonic eyes. Plus the motion control system can do a great subset of the humanoid motions like walking, running, dancing, etc. There is certainly a long running place for biped robots right along with humanoid robots!
I like the penguin don't get me wrong its a great little bot and I plan to buy one at some point. I also like the virtual motor, that is a cool idea. But I build 3 kinds of robots, Humanoids for robogames type events, AI robotics projects and educational bots. It is a great educational bot but I am focused on the 2008 robogames so I am mainly interested in competition bots. Parallax is bar none the best #1 greatest source for educational bots and I love there products. For example I am trying to build a humanoid with the parallax bs2e chip and a min atom bot board and SSC-32 controler. So I guess you could say I will be a humanoid with a parallax brain. Right now I have a robonova I have moded with bauer knee joints and grippers, gyro, accelleromiter, and ir. I would like to make somthing similar with the bs2e chip. That it one of the things I am working on atm. But far as the penguin I agree it is a great little bot, and I plan to buy one soon as I get some free time. But atm I'm looking for more robogames, robo cup and robo one type apps.
And what about a 24 or 32 port PCM controller driven by a Stamp? All integrated like a Kondo RCB-3??? That is right up their alley, and I do not see anything like that. I have a Manoi AT01 and the software suuuuuucks. Would much rather use Stamp to control it...
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Indeed, a humanoid can have a lot of complexity and complicated motions, and one with 22 servos is a long ways from one with only two. But just take a look at what you can do with only two servos, in the links provided by Ken Gracey, for a dancing and skating Penguin robot! As owner of both a humanoid and a Penguin biped, I can see a merging point of applications and capabilities. For example, one can develop applications with a lot of the same elements such as mechanics, servos, IR, photocells, remote control, robot operating system, and ultrasonic eyes. Plus the motion control system can do a great subset of the humanoid motions like walking, running, dancing, etc. There is certainly a long running place for biped robots right along with humanoid robots!
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