Really nice #behindthescenes for the #bostondynamics #atlas #humanoid #robot https://youtube.com/watch?v=XPVC4IyRTG8 I enjoyed this much more than their #video of it doing #tricks .
Nice #youtube #video by #jamesbruton on #walking #bipedal #robots https://youtube.com/watch?v=WJKhpGFg4uU Whislt #walking #robots are "easy", #humanoid #robots that move *fast* are most certainly hard. As he mentioned, uneven surfaces, inertia, etc, all add to difficulties.
This is a *really* nice #compact #animatronic #eyeball https://hackaday.com/2022/04/08/enjoy-th.. Would be really cool to put this in a #humanoid or the like.
God this thing is fucking dangerous: https://www.animarobotics.life/store/p/t.. A #robot #humanoid #teddy without even a #demo of the thing working! I made a great #hackernews #comment on just *some* of the #issues they will face with this thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292..
Super cool #humanoid #robotics #progress going on! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u03fl7p..
The new #raspberrypi #zero is pretty good on #power apparently: https://hackaday.com/2021/11/01/the-pi-z.. The joke is, our #humanoid #robot ran on less! To think that such a small board could now be used to drive our robot is actually insane.
I like the idea of these types of #screws / #bolts without a #head for a #driver https://hackaday.com/2021/10/24/tricky-s.. It could make for a really nice #design for a #humanoid #robot for a #seamless #finish ... I think I will be spending some time when back in the #uk to really #investigate #hardware ...
#qr #codes are genuinely pretty cool: https://huonw.github.io/blog/2021/09/qr-.. At some point in the future I would like to play about with them properly, perhaps in the context of #humanoid #robotics where all other #factors such as #detection #accuracy can be ruled out when designing #behaviours !
I've seen a very similar #bug in #humanoid #robotics several times, I believe both being due to an insufficient #primitive being used to store #time https://www.hanselman.com/blog/the-code-.. The one that happened most recent was the use of a `long` value to store time, which would overflow and cause the #motion #planning to really get confused and the #robot would try to kill itself in a creative way before #crashing !
@barray on Fri Aug 20 06:09:18 UTC 2021 said: &eSeems like an #opinion piece from #ieee agrees with me on #elonmusk 's push towards #humanoid #robotics https://spectrum.ieee.org/elon-musk-robo.. As I said before, it's arguably *way harder* than #autonomous #driving ... Autonomous driving tests whether #ai can fake being a #human at a single task - a humanoid #robot needs to fake being a human at many/all tasks. The problem space is simply on a different scale.I think #elonmusk has officially bitten off more than he can chew by declaring he will start working on a #humanoid #robot https://electrek.co/2021/08/19/tesla-bot.. He has *absolutely* no idea how much of a #mammoth undertaking it is - arguably its much harder than #autonomous #driving ... Some people are estimating it will take *at least* 5-10 years to get *anything* working at all - and I think that is right. And as for a #market for this robot...
I think #elonmusk has officially bitten off more than he can chew by declaring he will start working on a #humanoid #robot https://electrek.co/2021/08/19/tesla-bot.. He has *absolutely* no idea how much of a #mammoth undertaking it is - arguably its much harder than #autonomous #driving ... Some people are estimating it will take *at least* 5-10 years to get *anything* working at all - and I think that is right. And as for a #market for this robot...
This #rma work seems a lot similar to an idea I had for #robocup #humanoid walking, where you essentially have a base algorithm and them some #dynamic #adaptation algorithm: https://ashish-kmr.github.io/rma-legged-.. I still don't believe this is even close to the full potential of the method, and I think there are also some tricks being missed here... About to give the paper a quick read: https://ashish-kmr.github.io/rma-legged-..
I always try to remember when working with #robots that they could always hurt me: https://blog.nikitas.link/have-you-ever-.. The #humanoid robots are a significant finger removal and electrocution risk.
#aluminium extrusions are something I've wanted to take a look at for a while, especially for #humanoid limbs: https://hackaday.com/2021/05/25/getting-.. There could be some exciting future opportunities for low-cost, low-weight #robots for the #robocup project.