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Japanese Researchers Create Skiing Robot

Posted by samzenpus on from the can-it-ski-the-k-12 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a bid to better understand the art of an effective ski turn researchers have recently built a robot to simulate the exact movements of a skier. The team of researchers from Kanazawa University in Japan built the ski robot to investigate the existing movements of skier's turns and see if there is any room for improvement on current techniques."

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  1. Japan by Dyinobal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I always laugh at their silly robo projects. It's easy to do but I know that eventually all their silly research projects are going to culminate in something truly astounding. After all the first attempts at flight were silly.

  2. Room for improvement by seeker_1us · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmmm how can we improve a Japaneese robot? It can transform into a jet fighter. It should have lots of weapons, with an activation system keyed to voice recognition so that the pilot has to needlessly scream out their name every single time they are triggered. It needs a theme song sung by a japanese dude with a rich baritone voice and then for some reason lots of little children backing him up.

  3. ... prone to falling over ... by SimonInOz · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the FA ... a version of the robot with the correct human ratio was very prone to falling over

    I have just the same problem.

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  4. This isn't totally new by torrija · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just found a video of a skiin robot on youtube dated 2008 from the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNWh9DuF3hw

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