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Bipedal Dinosaur Robot
News for nerds writes "AIST and NEDO announced they have developed 2 bipedal dinosaur robots for the EXPO 2005 Aichi, Japan(Mar.25-Sep.25). PC Watch has an article with pics/movies and TBS News has a movie. Tyrannosaurus Rex and Parasaurolophus are modeled as 3.5m/80kg robots, and cost $1.8 million to build. They can roar and walk with an artificial pounding sound, but not as fearsome as Mechagodzilla. The external skin is designed by Kokoro Co., Ltd. and the endoskelton is developed by Kawada Industries, Inc. which is the manufacturer of the HRP-2 Humanoid Robot."
Leave it to japan to help make power rangers into a reality.
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have developed 2 bipedal dinosaur robots
I guess the ones on wheels just didn't cut it
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I for one welcome our new dino droid masters.
Is making a robot 'Roar' realy a technical achievement? Next step: flashing LED eyes
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At 3.5m I think it's still quite intimidating even with artificial pounding sound.
If they adjust weight to few hundred kgs, you'll start feeling it before seeing it.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
Dinosaurs are dying!
Wait, what was it abaout again?
When does something stop being a toy and become a robot?
Tomorrow's Spam? Get Tyrann0saurus Sex
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Will it run linux? ^_^
It's only a matter of time until someone in Japan decide to stick Asimo, several Aibos and a bunch of angry Dinobots (and also one of these on an island, and shoot a totally robotic remake of Jurassic Park...
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Start by building dinosaurs, and then gradually work your way up to a human like robot. Why didn't I think of that? It's evolution all over.
Disney's had this for a year or so...a ur.html
http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invdinos
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I already have. >_
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You'd think the Japanese would have learned their lesson. Well, when it starts stomping Tokyo, I can say I told you so.
Where Godzilla really came from.
Frink: "You've got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok, in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving." ...Oh. I forgot to carry the one.
Scientist: "How much time do we have professor?"
Frink: Well, according to my calculations, the robots won't go berserk for at least 24 hours (all robots turn against the humans)
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Dinosaur edition! I'd watch that. What better use for these robots could make than the realistic recreation of prehistoric dinosaur battles, complete with simulated thumping and roaring (and flashing LED eyes)?
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So if these robots crash they are called....
Japanisawawreck?
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$1.8 million, so how much does this Rent-a-Zilla cost per day ? Do I need a license from the Tokyo Police Cataclysm Division ?
The video looked really cool--except for the wobbling heads. If these robots were given active head stabilization (easy to do with a camera or two in the eyes controlling neck motors) they'd look very intimidating.
Also, the herbivore needs to have a bone in its crest. It looks a bit Yoda-ear-ish.
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Why would they spend so much money on building a robot that had no real use. Sure, it's a nice gimmick to make the news today, but 5-10 years from now they will be sitting in a warehouse or museum collecting dust. For millions of dollars. Why not build a robot that has a real, industrial or military use?
so the cart doesn't mean it's just domesticated?
*ahem*
i'm sorry - someone took that post seriously?
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youve gotta see the video. its very funny yet amazing. the dinos would make great exhibition pieces. the fake tinny thudding sound made when the make a step is soo tacky :)
The robot page of the AICHI 2005 EXPO page is chalk full of children-oriented depictions: http://www-1.expo2005.or.jp/en/robot/index.html http://www-1.expo2005.or.jp/en/robot/g/robot_proje ct_02.jpg
Kids worshiping the trash bot, hurrah!
Combined with a recent Slashdot story that other recent story entitled
One "Giant Step for Humanoids" (do they mean "android"?), which
features robots that utilize gravity during walking movement in a manner closer to
humans than ever previously achieved, it seems that great strides have been made
recently in the field of robotic engineering.
[1] See - One "Giant Step for Humanoids"
silly buggers, never post a direct link to a movie on slashdot...
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It Looks like Godzilla, but due to International Copyright Laws.....It's not.
Still we should run like it is Godzilla! - Though it's not.
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Beat me to it. I am teh l4m3!
Check out the other 'bots at the site: http://www-1.expo2005.or.jp/en/robot/robot_project _01.html
(That childcare robot look's like it's about to get it's shiny metal a$$ kicked!) };-)
The U.S. really needs an English to Wisdom dictionary.
Is that these servers can host hefty videos under a full on slashdotting without missing a beat.
/. effect in their NOC, the same sort that can burn major US university and news outlet servers into cinders.
The technological tenacity of the Japanese is almost frightening. They're probably laughing at the tiny spike of the
Testing slashdot banned me for a month for the comment before this :P hahaha check it out whole thread was nuked :P weird
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Given that this story submission is several hours old, my post is probably going to be neglected in mod point purgatory. Nevertheless, an arguably more interesting dinosaur robot was created by Peter Dilworth at the MIT leg laboratory. See pics and vids of Troody the dinosaur robot here: http://alpha-bits.ai.mit.edu/people/chunks/chunks. html
They could rear up on two legs and probably could move around on two legs for short distances but, like the ceratopsians, they were evolving into heavier forms from lightweight ancestors that were more functionally bipedal (like Fabrosaurids, Hypsilophodontids, etc.).
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I couldnt get the original link to work (404 error)
here ya go
English story and (japanese) video
Here is a direct link to the video
... Truckasaurus?