I thought this was going to be a story about some researcher who had spray-painted some zebras out on the savanna to see if they were more vulnerable to lions...
Can you explain, then, what *is* different about this robot's balancing? It's clearly more "wobbly" than an Asimo, which leads me to conjecture that it is doing some kind of real-time closed-loop processing, whereas I'm guessing that the Asimo is open-loop.
Please correct me if I'm misusing terminology - what I mean is that the Asimo appears to have been pre-programmed, using assumptions about the surface it's walking on, where as Dexter seems able to react to unpredicted real-time sensory input.
Any ideas about this?
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I thought this was going to be a story about some researcher who had spray-painted some zebras out on the savanna to see if they were more vulnerable to lions ...
I think this video gives a better view into the possibilities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJHYqE0RDg&eurl=http://code.google.com/android/
Can you explain, then, what *is* different about this robot's balancing? It's clearly more "wobbly" than an Asimo, which leads me to conjecture that it is doing some kind of real-time closed-loop processing, whereas I'm guessing that the Asimo is open-loop. Please correct me if I'm misusing terminology - what I mean is that the Asimo appears to have been pre-programmed, using assumptions about the surface it's walking on, where as Dexter seems able to react to unpredicted real-time sensory input. Any ideas about this?