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Humanoid Powered by Linux
lems1 was among the avalanche of people who submitted this Linux powered Humanoid. The website has
pictures and videos if you're curious. We're not exactly worrying about him seeking out the blue fairy or anything, but its nifty.
It would seem to me that they would want to use a Real Time OS, such as QNX. Last I checked, I don't remeber of being able to make Linux Realtime.
They may be running linux on the controller, but I wouldn't call it linux powered. Unless there are robot-control drivers built into the linux kernel, it isn't really "powered by linux" -- it is "powered by xyz robot-control code".
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No robot may harm a human being, or, by inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Corollary: Microsoft management is not defined as "human".
A great many of the Japanese humanoid robots are powered by Linux. For example, the PINO microhumanoid from the ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project runs on RT Linux. I saw that one at IJCAI this year, very nice. Of course, the most famous of 'em all, Honda's P3, runs on Solaris. I hung out at the P3 facility at Honda in north Tokyo for a while while staying at Sony. They have a bunch of SPARC rackmounts stored in their backpacks, and run off a remote radio link controlled by UltraSparc stations sitting on a table a ways away.
I am constantly amazed how Slashdot can get its underwear bundled up in a wad over almost trivially insignificant, highly redundant facts.
The cubicle next to me has been occupied by a linux-powered humanoid for the last two years.
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Anyone else reminded of ROB the Robot from the old first American Nintendo release?
:^)
Ryan Fenton
lol Linux powered humanoid robot. That sounds about right. :)
Curiously, there's a photograph of Bill Gates on the same page, in the lower left corner. Coincidence?
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It looks like a silver Pusher/Shover robot. does it protect you from the terrible secret of space?
This opens up a few more option for all that Microsoft bashing that's going on...
You feel sleepy. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.
please ignore the man behind the curtain pushing a dolly of computers.
and the link opens up with an X10 ad!
what are the odds we could slashdot the X10.com?
Since the H7 page is already Slashdotted, perhaps some information on its direct ancestor, the H6 would shed some light.
Humanoid Robot H6 page
~chris
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Actually, it looks like the alternate site has both H6 and H7 information here:
H6 and H7 information page
~c
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Uhm, this was posted last week on /. .....
Still a cool story tho....
They're called lawyers.
This robot has been on LinuxDevices.com since July. http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9048148355. html
Why is everyone amazed that you can write applications for linux? I mean seriously who gives a damn?
What perhaps is neat is that there is an autonomous robot. Being controlled by a linux app is about as amazing as my 80C32 MCU board running code I plug into its memory... Wow....
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
My fFriends insist I am a linux powered humanoid, too. ..)
(In which case, i have a lot of explaining to do about that Gimp
In short, the prelude to those horror movies like Brazil and 1984, with droids sitting in front of some totally network controlled 'bland looking, quasi dumb x-terminal', camera, keyboard & mouse monitoring every humanoid action. Sound like innovation to you. You guys make the Redmond crowd look like choir boys, from where I sit.
... but unhelpful - sure, the movement's natural-looking, but how good is the software at analysing its environment to adjust its walking pattern, and so on; also, it evidently needs an in-built fusion pack to keep it going, or something - trailing wires is no fun in difficult conditions :-)
/still/ think it's cool.
;-)
Basically, how useful is this prototype; IANAE, but I'd guess that this technology still has some years to go before being useful.
But I
PS: Of course, given it's running (RT-)Linux... "How about a beowulf cluster of these?"
James F.
He twists her knobs, she watches his antenna rise.
Imagine a linux-powered humanoid in a penguin costume knocking at your door...
Ceci n'est pas une sig
What I wouldn't give to be able to "unwatch" the last half of that stupid movie!
On the other hand, if only they could make the batteries in my cellphone or laptop last even a fraction of David's power source, it might be worth it. (How long did he and that bear sit watching that damm fairy?)
After all, hasn't ESR been a linux-powered humanoid for quite a while now?
Robotiq.com is heavily tested on animals
Single white male seeking Female Linux-Powered Humaniod Companion.
hey... It can get cold over her in New England during those long Winter nights!
Windows is not the answer.
Windows is the question.
The answer is "NO."
Whenever robots like this come up, the actuators always seem to use motors and gears. I've often that using that method is rather limiting, since they are very bulky.
Are there any good methods for more of a muscle-type actuator? Something very narrow that contracts. It seems like if you had something simple and cheap enough, you could use lots of them to give much better mobility.
I'm guessing there isn't anything really good, otherwise people would do it that way. Still, could you have some telescoping rod kind of thing with a coil to contract it? You wouldn't even need to go both directions -- just do what a muscle does, and wait for the opposing actuator to move it back out. It seems like there has to be something simpler that works better than motors and gears.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
In an amazing display of robotics technology, DHL (Digital Human Laboratory) have replaced CmdrTaco and his crew from slashdot.org with Steve Guttenberg and a zany robot look a like from Short Circuit.
Steve was pleased with the new position, having been unemployed since Police Academy 12 and has enjoyed taking over Rob's job of managing slashdot and downloading endless numbers of 80's porn mpgs...
Slashdot patrons have noted that "Number 5's" moderations and story ideas have been far better than previous human offerings although there are some concerns about his developing robosexual relationship with Futuramas "Bender".
(mod me down and label me troll me if u must.. I'm just such a sucker for anything 80's)
...a beowulf cluster of these.
Watch out Rockettes!
Jonathan
It's almost 3:00am here, and I need to get to bed soon. I'm trying to decide if I should read Slashdot for a little while longer, then sleep. Problem is, I feel a gnawing in my bowels -- I feel an increasing need to take a shit. But, I prefer morning shits, and quite frankly, I'm too tired to take a shit right now anyway.
I would really appreciate some advice here, people. I *could* just read Slashdot and then go to bed without taking a shit, but I'm worried that I will wake up half-way through my sleep and have to rush to the bathroom.
Shit can not be avoided. Sort of like BSOD's for those people stupid enough to run Windows.
How long until there's a female version?
Beware of the linux powered sex godess!
Ask, and Ye shall recieve:
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:)
http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/BRL/devices/mckibb
These things have been out since the 50's. Problem has always been static stability and power/force generation - not good enough for a 100+ kilo robot, but lots of smaller biologically-inspired robots have used them, for example:
http://biorobots.cwru.edu
Gear & motors work, because they are strong and can support the torques necessary for large robots. Pneumatics have the speed for acutation, but lack refined motor control (they tend to be a bit jerky). Hydraulics are wonmderful for smooth and powerful motion and force generation, but lack speed.
Sigh, I guess we're all just waiting for artificial piezo-electric myofibril actuators, from Battletech, then we'll have big robots and mechs 'o plenty
Sincerely,
Kevin W. Christie
Neuroscience Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
...or do the movies look like footage they'd use if they needed to do a flashback in a Terminator movie?
Maybe you find my 100Mbit/s .fi link faster than the original .jp site...
http://shakti.tky.hut.fi/slashdot/h7outside.mpg
http://shakti.tky.hut.fi/slashdot/h6homepage2.mpg
Come on guys, if we are going to make a robot, why not make a really cool robot that can pick up chicks? Instead, this robot just looks like one of us nerds. We have failed to create our saviour "coolio chick-pickin-upper" robot that will help us get dates.
...and God created manbot in his image... as a nerd.
Hmm wireless ethernet, dual P3's eh? how bout a beowulf cluster of these.
But seriously, I didnt see anything but im assuming its possible to use that wireless to allow 2 of these robots to work in coordination and send data back to a controller. Anyone got any more info on that aspect?
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They claim full-body motion with 36 joints. I have 36 joints between my two hands. Go ahead, count 'em.
Those are all unix like operating system utilities, and the fucking robot is running a unix like operating system.
Are you sure you should be at a web site that advertises itself as "News for Nerds"? If you don't have a clue, don't mod the comment!
I was about to write a 3D human model with joint-control some years ago, and collected a lot of data (no, it's NOT GPL'ed yet, sorry) as to how humans walk. This robot walks like a drunk pirate, because he doesn't use his hands the way we use them to balance the torque that our legs impose on our body. Just try to walk with your arms laced in front of you (or behind you, for that matter)! That would make a big difference!
Yay, erm needed to wait fora bit, but still here
echo "Fuck This"
sleep for a bit
echo "well I am fucked"
Need Porn, need to stop worrying about linux powered geeks (linux powered geeks = geeks)
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For example, the PINO
they're missing either a CCHIO or a BEE
and they have funny Engrish. This is dangerously close to being an exact quote: All our concept are belong to GNU
Will I retire or break 10K?
Funny ... when I first got to this page, the first humanoid picture I've seen was the one above "gates unveils XP". I didn't know he was running on linux after all ...
I recall when I first learnt of QNX,
that THIS OS was used in the Control System
of the Deployment Arm on the Space Shuttle!
Source-- AmigaFormat magazine published maybe
3 years ago, when Gateway2000 was the owner!
Regards,
JK
(David Bowman, EVA near HUGE Monolithic Win-PC in orbit around Jupiter) "My God - its full of Malware!"
This thing is pretty spiffy, but it seems to have a very long tail. Most other humanoids I know don't... ;)
Here is a good site that gives a good reference on what are, and how they work.
The are electric linear actuaters as well, that work on a telescoping lead screw rod type system, as well as solenoid based, and SMA (shape memory alloy) actuators - however, none of these have as fast response times, and waste more power.
Even air muscles aren't perfect, but they are interesting...
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The circled part...
Do you like German cars?
...of hacking it would be using one of these (www.realdoll.com) . Commands such as 'grep' and 'touch' would have a totally new meaning.
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...but does it transform into a motorcycle and know kung fu?
Maybe they're burning all of the floppies they made in the 0.x and 1.x kernel days. <grin>
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I'm starting to think that Spootnik is actually a Bot that submits the text of a Slashdot article to Google Groups, then spits out a copied Usenet post as a reply.