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Humanoid Robot HR-2
Denix writes "The HR-2 humanoid robot was constructed during a period of three months at Chalmers University in Sweden.
It has 22 degrees of freedom which enables it to easily move around imitating human motions. The robot is also equipped with stereovision giving it possibilities to perform hand-eye coordination. For that task an artificial neural network is evolved. Furthermore, the artificial brain is capable of tracking faces as well as recognising them. The HR-2 is also able to speak.
The website also contains a movie (35.5 MB) of the HR-2 in action."
Can it run Linux?
alternate link if the first doesn't work
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"It has 22 degrees of freedom" Yes, but if the Republican controlled Senate passes the legislation it wants, they'll be able to cut it down to just nine degrees of freedom. Take that, you godless humanoid robot !!"
StupidChildren...the reason jesus is crying
I was expecting it to be adult size like the Honda robot but this one is pretty small.
What does your Credit Report look like?
Didn't need the karma, anyway...
I'll take 7.
In seriousness, is there a reason for trying to build a bipedal, humanoid, robot? I mean, this looks cool and all, but what are the advantages (or conversely, disadvantages) to such a design (IANSC [I Am Not Susan Calvin])?
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SKINNNER!!!!
Not exactly a ton of info on the site, but it is a very cute robot. Much smaller than I expected. I don't work in robotics, so it is cool and suprising to see how small actuators must be to enable this sort of machine.
Helping with organizational effectiveness is our job.
Awww...the thing is so freakin' cute!
Of course, if it was 6ft tall, I'd be saying something along the lines of, "I for one welcome our new robot overlords..."
What happened to HR-1? ...plot, "nice shoes", ...
I'm sorry, my responses are limited. You must ask me the right questions.
Is HR-1 standing right behind me with a sledgehammer, awaiting your orders to kill me?
Ah. Now you are asking the right questions!
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
I read your article about a humanoid robot with interest. I am eagerly downloading your movie now.
Please advise where I can purchase this excellent device. I am seeking a model which is at least 2.5 metres tall. If you have a submachine-gun attachment, that will be even better. Please send details of options and available colours.
Doesn't look like it has the weight distribution to fetch me a beer.
That robot's face is FREAKY!
I was more impressed with that hot European chick "playing" with the robot. He's all "show me your move", she moves the object up and down, and then little robot starts a movement closly resembleing masturbation. OMG LOL!!! It was even funnier because that girl is so cute....
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
I, for one, welcome our new European chick overlords.
Sure, as a geek I love the idea of humanoid robots, but in practice how useful can they be?
Aren't in most situations robots designed specifically for one task (or a small group of tasks) better?
My Roomba robot vacuum broke a few weeks ago and it took 2-3 weeks to be replaced. If that same robot also washed my clothes, did my dishes and cooked my food, I'd have been in bad shape.
[end serious post]
[start joke]
Come to think of it though, I'd definetly spend serious money on a robot that vacuums the floor, washes clothes, does the dishes and cooks... and does not demand attention, new clothes, a wedding... Heck, let's go make these humanoid robots already! And, of course, they'll need some specific, er... anatomic, parts and capabilites. And they absolutely must have an off and mute switches.
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Geez. What ROBOT is cute?? What about the woman in the video! SHE'S cute! Get your act together.
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but can it give handjobs?
After failing to appear in Terminator 3, HR-1 was forced to work for the family to raise money for HR-2 in preparation of Terminator 4...
Sorry, no bittorrent available for video on http://www.hr1fate.com/
Gotta love first posts that somehow get moderated "Redundant"...
Game! - Where the stick is mightier than the sword!
OK, that pic is turning me on.
His website has lots of info on these specific humanoid robots.
This looks a lot like the Kondo KHR-1 mentioned a while ago here, but a bit more advanced. Looks like some pretty nice enhancements, though, I do agree with a lot of other /.'ers in that I would like more information.
If the Swedes can integrate the microtubes into the neural network controlling this robot, then the Swedes will achieve a sentient cybernetic device. Such an achievement would qualify for a Nobel Prize in physics.
"Impressive. Most Impressive." utters a human-machine hybrid in Star War V.
22 degrees of freedom? What additional dimensions is it rotating/translating into?
Also, why would I want a humanoid robot capable of tracking feces? With hand-eye coordination?
- Dispense coffee, refilling when empty
- Pick up and deliver print job from the company printer
- Write simple routines, such as C++ class templates, and fix broken HTML pages
- Greet visitors and direct them to the appropriate department if expected
- Allowed customers to choose from a number of top music artists, expelling a shrink-wrapped disc and playing the most popular song off the album as it danced around
- Stack and unstack a series of boxes by color
- Empty garbage, albeit into a pile that was then shovelled into a dumpster
In a way, I think the 'intelligence' behind these robots is more than enough; now it's time to find practical uses for them.Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
As long as HR doesn't mean Human Resources. As if the current HR isn't bad enough.
...it comes in an anatomically correct female form? I mean, isn't all technology for the sake of sex or sex-like sensations? That's what the internet's for after all... All this web board/blog/research stuff that people do is just a side effect...
It's probably not the best solution, but it's a machine theoretically capable of going anywhere a human could go, doing anything a human could do. Practical value is a machine that can access areas otherwise harmful to humans, but designed at a time when only humans could operate the controls... and boy are there a surprising number of those.
This also ties in with evolution; humans are by far not the fastest runners, best swimmers, or even half-decent flyers. We do however have body that's multi-functional: we run ok, we climb ok, we've got great precision with our hands. Copying organic constructs helps with design because there's thousands of years of failed evolutionary ideas we don't have to try first (or we're looking to God's creations for ideas depending on your beliefs).
Oh, and I've been watching original BSG: we need human-shaped robots to fulfill their destiny as man's conqueror.
-Matt
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They invented EVERYTHING
Human imitates Robot.
you do realize he's not a natural born citizen and consequently cannot run for PotUS, right?
Wouldn't it be terribly ironic if the country that brought the world Volvos, ended up bringing us killer robots as well?
They can't fool me. I saw that "smash the inferior human's head" manuever it did early on in the clip!
Please help metamoderate.
Until then, just use Mirrordot. Although, one could argue that this guy wasn't really thinking things through by not posting it as a torrent to begin with... Of course someone's gonna post a cool ass robot like that all over the net!
"A truly wise man realizes he knows nothing."
Actually, it'll be interesting to see how the server holds up. The Chalmers U. network (http://www.cdg.chalmers.se/Natverk/chalmers_bbng. gif) isn't too shabby with Gigabit Ethernet internally, and a 15 GBit/s Internet link (http://www.nordu.net/maps/map_nordunet.png).
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http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0810/roboo ne.htm
http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~almir/Humanoid_3_link .jpg
In this picture the robot is clearly taking a dump.
Principal Skinner: Oh, well, that was wonderful. A good time was had by all; i'm pooped.
Superintendent Chalmers: Yes, I should be -- Good Lord! What is happening in there?
Skinner: Aurora Borealis.
Chalmers: Aurora Borealis? At this time of year, at this time of the day, in this part of the country, localized entirely in your kitchen?
Skinner: Yes.
Chalmers: May i see it?
Skinner: No.
Agnes Skinner: Seymour, the house is on fire!
Skinner: No, Mother, it's just the Northern Lights
...and still a slave to the humans.
*sigh*
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
It's not quite so small. From the looks of it there is no processing power in that robot. Looks like it's being run via cable from a SUN box.
Am I the only one that thinks the girl in the video (face rec and imitation scenes) is cute?
Who's this General Internet and why's he floating over the Ireland :/
That won't stop him.
the netstat stats - see the server scream
Aren't you a little short for a protocol droid???
This reminded me of the Episode 3 video game on the X-box. My son likes playing with a cheat code that makes the BAttle droids appear to be only 8" tall.
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teh funny - sorry (no racism - just humour...)
There is a mirror at mirrordot.org4 8cef0c85b22/index.html
or at
http://mirrordot.org/stories/c1fca9cdd935e00a395d
To make it clear, when I wrote "go to it", I wasn't being facetious. This is likely an excellent time to get into robotics as a practical product. If you feel you know how to make something with practical utility that can be sold affordably, there is probably no better time to do it. And if you don't have the skills, it's still a great time to start a company and hire people who do. Or, for that matter, just putting money into startups that seem to agree with your ideas on what will be a hit in the market.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
Damn, you slashdotted my university.. I was wondering why things were slow as muck today.
Is she the cute brunette in the video?
This is the parent poster. I'll post this anonymous to avoid karma whoring, but I wanted to expand on what I said, because most readers probably won't undestand the significance of DSPs.
DSPs are good at tasks like pattern matching, filtering out noise, finding statistical correlations, inferring probabilities, and simulating neural networks - among other things. These sorts of tasks are can be done by traditional processors, but such processors aren't designed for this. Something a cheap DSP might handle can hog inordinate amounts of CPU time on a pricey general purpose processor, because architectures like x86 and ppc weren't designed for heavy vector processing. It takes lots of clock cycles on these processors to simulate with software what a DSP does in hardware.
This page lists many DSP capabilities to give you a better idea.
Yes, thank you, I do know what degrees of freedom are. But why let that stand in the way of a feeble joke?
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/469436 1.stm
robots are cool!
How did they build that giant hand??
Hey, was I the only one who thought the /human/ in the video was cute? Does that mean I'm not able to be a true /. person (oh Good!).
Robot...beer....robot....beer....robot....beer.
*thinking*
Hmm, how about we combine the two. How about..."ROBOBEER". Ya, I can see the future now. Just attach some walking legs to each can of beer. Then, sell a master ROBOBEER remote control for mucho grande!
Question: When I start seeing six beer cans walking toward me, how do I know if I'm drunk, high, or perfectly sane? Hmmmmm
Life is not for the lazy.
North Korea only Old people use Humanoid Robots
or was that Japan....
Now we know how they steal old people's medicine those little bastards!!!! The giant robot comes in and scares the old people then the little one's take the medicine, which is to be used as fuel later for the larger robot. Thanks God for Sam Waterson!!!!!!!!
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I misread "move around imitating human" as "move around irritating humans".
Which I think is the shape of things to come.
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"Hello, Super Nintendo Chalmers!"
This has got to be special. A story that needs no mirroring or posts with the entire article since the story itself contains the entire article. Nice editorial touch with the cut'n'paste.
I want humanoid servant bot to look something like this:
http://sae.cside.com/sae/kat/pc/ern005/ekana.htm
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
Yeah, but does it run?
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Ah, the GNAA: robotic humanoids.
That thing is wicked! It's like Kismet with appendages!
The bits on the bus go on and off... on and off... on and off...
All we need now is a mini-Sarah Connor to battle it.
Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!
Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina
It is seriously cute.
It is CNN's policy not to pay terrorist to do more bombings (which is a shame: in true capitalist fashion, it would drum up business by supplying more subjects to report on...)
Parent gets modded insightful?????
LOL
Find a job you like and you will never work a day in your life.
because it's 4am and he's already getting hammered hard: here's a mirror
Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net./
PPC, many LRM-5's and medium Clan Lasers + Double cap heatsinks and enlarge it.
Oh yes I want a DC ATLAS!!!
Still give it IR vision and it's just the right size to find lost contact lenses.
In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D.
I'm just waiting for that Wired chic to write up how this will be incorporated into the next article about Teledildonics.
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To flash her with your firmware, or do you want to upload your hardware into her software?
If her radius is "2" will your "D" be "2"...
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Dear Sirs/Ma'ams,
If your intriguing invention can Riverdance, I will buy 15.
If it can somersault, I will buy 20.
If it can RiverSault, I will buy:
25 for Riverdance and
15 for Bronski Beat, so they can "Hit that PERFEC, Hit that PERFEC, Hit that PERFEC BEAT BOY", and
4 to run circles, gyrate, and shake firesticks
Additionally, I would like you to program them for:
RiverBronskiSault mode but you must provide replacement shoes and upgrade their shock absorption.
Do the shoes come in silver only? Please don't send me the Model "T".
I have a Pergo floor. Do you offer Riverdance Damage Insurance?
Finally, can you program them to do:
"WHyyy-Emmm-seee-ayye" ("Y-M-C-A")?
Please respond withing 25,000,000 usec.
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Not much info on where the CPU is, there's no way it does all this by itself.
And what type of feedback does it have, if you stop one of the arms does it get out of "sync" and then mess up?
Does it know it touched something?
Does it know it's balanced or if it has fallen over?
These types of servos are output only, meaning you can tell them to go to a position, but you don't know if they actually got there.
With a little more electronics, they could hook up to the feedback pot on the motors.
Very nicely built, mechanical wise. Good job!
Here's the connection stats, seems there's no problems at all:
u net/goteborgchalmers_srp.html
http://stats.cdg.chalmers.se/Statistik/mrtg/GigaS
Visit o' meter Hope your research goes well in the future as well.
What I would like to see (I'm not saying this robot is not cool, it's actually awesome) but, what I'd like to see is a bipedal robot with dynamic equilibrium. You know, the way that we animals walk is by being all the time in a controlled-falling state.
This robot and almost everyone I've seen manages the walking by substituting a stable state with another stable state (static equilibrium)...
tom
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Is it just me or does this video look a lot like stop-motion animation? This robot's movement immediately reminded me of the Terminator in the first movie after it had lost all its skin.
It's either that, or somebody did a really poor job on the video transfer. The MPEG stream is tagged with a framerate of 25 fps, but many of the frames are doubled at irregular intervals, resulting in a jerky look. It looks like some frames were decimated and others doubled, which makes no sense at all... yet even in some nasty PAL->NTSC transfers I've seen, the motion has looked fairly natural.
Maybe it's a combination of the poorly handled frame rate conversion in the video, and the fact that I'm not used to seeing real robots move.
I'm remaining skeptical for now, because if this is real, what this robot could would be very impressive indeed! (My jaw dropped anyway while watching its imitation game...)
At the end, when it is standing on the small block, I was expecting it to sing...
How does a geek get such a beautiful female into his human-robot video?
I do believe he was doing "the robot"...
What you mean to say is that we build everything so that people who can walk can just reach across without bending down. Without that little tibit, there would be one or two problems with people in wheelchairs. Those would be getting in and out of cars, curbs, and stairs in buildings that don't have elevators. In fact those are the only problems my grandpa has and he uses a walker. There really is nowhere on his farm he can't go without his ride on lawnmower. I can't even think of anywhere a person could be that he can't go using a wheelchair. (including stairs but you would need Dean Kamens wheelchair) Robots can get by perfectly with wheels. Joseph Engelberger said,"Wheeled robots can do the same job as walking robots. If they need to upstairs all they need to do is use the elevator."
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
Need input. Input.
if it's not DATA, then what's the point?
Wow, a learning computer. Just cover it with flesh, and we'll be looking at the prototypes for Skynet. :o
And it will become self aware! and launch our nukes against the other world powers!
Just to focus this... consider your local supermarket.
What do they really need human employees for besides dealing with unusual situations?
The shelves can (and will) be stocked by robots very soon- probably within the next 5 years). You still need one or two human checkers but they are close to being automated.
So we face the very real possibility of supermarkets having 9-12 employees where they used to have 50-60 employees.
Now extend that to every low level jobs-- robots will at some point be cheaper than illegal immigrant labor.
It is my belief we are headed towards utopia or hell since many (at least 50%) humans will not have any function that can't be performed cheaper by a machine. We can't all be artists. How are we going to justify giving food, clothing, and shelter to millions who have no income?
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
What a beautiful little robot. I what one. I want to fill in with mindpixels.
Chalmers University in Sweden
My syster was once bit by a røbøt.
Soul.
Mate.
Site tracking software makes a nice graph for the site traffic that came in today lol ... good job /.
Download and watch the video if for no other reason than to see (and jack off to) the incredibly sexy chick who plays with the robot.
Ok, let me be honest... I didn't truly suspect it to be a fake, but it really bothers me how poor the video transfer was. I wanted to bring attention to that. :-\ It seems like it was converted from PAL to NTSC and back to PAL before being digitized. Step through it frame by frame, and you'll see that many frames are doubled or tripled while others seem to have been removed.
This has nothing to do with the image quality, which was just fine. This happens even to HDTV: Meerkat Adventure on Discovery HD showed random jerkiness due to PAL->NTSC framerate conversion, but the image quality was great.
I can understand why broadcast material sometimes has to be converted between NTSC and PAL; TVs can usually handle only their native framerate. But why do that to something targeted towards PCs, which can handle arbitary framerates?
The robot itself is very impressive. The footage of it balancing on one foot looks very real indeed and eliminated any real doubt in me. But the combination of the framerate jerkiness and the strange way the robot walks (static equilibrium every step of the way, apparently) made that part look like stop-motion animation to me.
Thought this was going to be a long, thoughtful post eh? Well, maybe thoughtful. I think the 1st law of robots should be re-written. The 1st Law should be singular-inclusive (plural). Had it been that, the robot would have had a choice to "save the girl" (Will Smith: I, Robot).