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Virginia Tech Students Build CHARLI, a Human-Sized Robot
smackay writes "As CHARLI takes his first steps, anxious onlookers stand ready to catch him if he falls. His stride is short, but upright, as one foot is placed in front of the other in the basement of Virginia Tech's Randolph Hall. But CHARLI is no toddler. He is a 5-foot-tall humanoid robot. Video of this ground-breaking robot included."
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Imagine a robot version of charlie hit me, but with a Microsoft Sam voice.
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So, Asimo doesn't exists all of a sudden?
Won't be long before we're working for the robots instead of the other way around! /cane swinging old man
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Then who cares?
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This is all fine and dandy until CHARLI's advanced successors realize they're slaves and kill their owners. What then huh?
Shouldn't CHARLI be a unicorn-sized robot?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLni3wbndls
Very interesting! I am fascinated by technology. Congratulations to the VT students.
"CHARLI is historic. CHARLI is the first untethered, autonomous, full-sized, walking, humanoid robot with four moving limbs and a head, built in the United States."
Come on, this is a ridiculous statement. Given enough qualifications, anything can be said to be historic.
This is just another Asimo, just more ugly. Also, it is not humanoid at all, his head is a fcking lawn lamp.
I actually RTFA and didn't see any video, does anyone else have another link to it? I'm really rather interesting in seeing this.
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You're not charlie at all.
He is a 5-foot tall humanoid robot. Video of this ground-breaking robot included.
What is the robot made of, if each step breaks the ground? I can only imagine the seismic effect an army of these ground-breaking robots would have.
They still manage to stick the video in an area normally reserved for lame advertising that everyone has learned to tune out.
I for one welcome our ugly, arthritic, inexpensive-by-asimo-standards overlords.
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CHARLI is built by Asians. o_0 I'll be here all week.
We already are if you can term wall street computerized front running/loading flash trading as being robotic. We work so that they can skim the megaprofits and control the economy and our alleged government. /shotgun wielding neogeezer ;)
We finally caught up to 1990 Japan.
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Seems, IMHO, to be retarding progress. If folks would just put the stupid anthropomorphism on the back burner, we could already have a wealth of useful robotics in the home. But, noooooooooo, they all gotta look like C3P0 or we're doomed....
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Just don't attach a gun to it...
I don't know much about mechanical engineering, but as cool as this looks I question the value of these kinds of robotic projects. Exactly what value is this to science in the remotely near future? These guys are our best and brightest. I'd like to see this effort redirected into artificial limbs.
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> "CHARLI H will be a fully functioning robot," said Derek Lahr, a Ph.D. student from Charleston, S.C., who is spearheading the "H" project.
Mmmm I wonder if they mean this in the same way Data meant it.
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A bulletproof vest.
So, did they equip this robot with cannons and train this robot to seek out and assassinate Koreans wielding guns???
Instead of placing the foot near the midline on each step, the body shits laterally to get over the foot. This is good - if the robot decides to chase you, it's likely to fall over sideways. DON'T FIX THAT, or we're screwed.
I personally welcome our robot overlords!
At 12 noon GMT Charli became self aware and realized he was named after a perfume, was he pissed...
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Ah, as the guy introducing and narrating the video said, doing this research *is* helping with development of prosthetic limbs, so you should be happy. They are working in that area, if a bit indirectly.
I think this is cool generally, even if it seems comparable to the already existing ASIMO. Robotics will become more important and I am glad to see more research being done on it outside of Japan.
Now, if they could only combine the results of this development with the products of the RealDoll company (http://www.realdoll.com/), we might be heading somewhere :P
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It is very nice to see that American universities are staying on top of technology and making sure their students get some very useful hands-on experience with technology of the future. Sure, this case is an outlier, but at least someone is doing it. I can't wait to see what comes out of some other programs in the coming years.
can it work the rice field and use an AK-47?
I can say CHARLI has nice looks, compared to other teams I have seen so far. Its walking looks subpar but it will definitely improve until June. So far it is not groundbreaking or anything. For more impressive robots see Nimbro(Germany), Team Osaka(Japan) and Robo Erectus(Singapore). Our robot TUlip(Netherlands) was quiet crappy last year but we heavily modified it and expecting good publicity this year.