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Chairbot Walks You Around While You Sit

Posted by samzenpus on from the stop-using-your-legs-like-a-sucker dept.

Gary writes "What do you get when you combine a robot and a chair? The Hubo FX-1 chairbot, of course. In what is perhaps my favorite robot design yet, this giant chair with legs looks like it came out of some ridiculous 80's sci-fi movie or something, but it's very, very real. HUBO FX-1 is two meters in height, and weighs 150 kg. The person sitting can control the robot easily using the built in joystick. Each ankle has a 3-axis force/torque sensor which measures the normal force and 2 moments. Each foot has an inclination sensor which measures the angle of the slope. Also, the rate gyro and the inclination sensor of the body allow the device to stabilize itself."

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  1. Re:One thought by monomania · · Score: 0, Troll

    "He tried to drive over the barrier at a very shallow angle. It would have been no problem if he came at it from 45 to 90."

    Is that in degrees, radians, or miles per hour?