I agree with you that the video should be done by a real advertising firm. About the 3 years of development, it is right, that is avery short time to design something as complex as a humanoid robot with so many features (other robots can JUST walk). Have you seen the videos of REEM-A? The first prototype was built in 1 YEAR !!!! Still, it can walk, talk, recognize people, accept voice commands... and play chess:)
I will be happy to answer your questions:
1) the batteries last about 1 hour and 30 minutes walking continuously.
2) the joints are not compliant, from a mechanical point of view, but we do some "damping" of the foot-ground by software using the six-axis force sensors on the feet.
3) the robot is autonomous, in the sense that it can localize itself,create a path between current location and destination and detect obstacles.
Still, we have a lot of work to do (i.e., we can't walk as Asimo does... so far!!!).
We will publish videos of REEM-B in February and, hopefully, you will notice a more human-like walking.
Hi,
I am the person that wrote the software for the DYNAMIC walking of the robot REEM.
I think it is very COOL that you can calculate the second derivative of the Center of Mass motion just watching a video in low resolution.
The algorithm used on REEM-A is dynamic, since it uses accelerations to keep the equilibrium during the walking gait. It is not so easy to notice just because the step length is quite short.
As you wisely said, if the robot is stopped suddenly, it would fall.
Regards
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Hi,
I agree with you that the video should be done by a real advertising firm. :)
About the 3 years of development, it is right, that is avery short time to design something as complex as a humanoid robot with so many features (other robots can JUST walk). Have you seen the videos of REEM-A? The first prototype was built in 1 YEAR !!!!
Still, it can walk, talk, recognize people, accept voice commands... and play chess
I will be happy to answer your questions: 1) the batteries last about 1 hour and 30 minutes walking continuously. 2) the joints are not compliant, from a mechanical point of view, but we do some "damping" of the foot-ground by software using the six-axis force sensors on the feet. 3) the robot is autonomous, in the sense that it can localize itself,create a path between current location and destination and detect obstacles. Still, we have a lot of work to do (i.e., we can't walk as Asimo does... so far!!!). We will publish videos of REEM-B in February and, hopefully, you will notice a more human-like walking.
Hi, I am the person that wrote the software for the DYNAMIC walking of the robot REEM. I think it is very COOL that you can calculate the second derivative of the Center of Mass motion just watching a video in low resolution. The algorithm used on REEM-A is dynamic, since it uses accelerations to keep the equilibrium during the walking gait. It is not so easy to notice just because the step length is quite short. As you wisely said, if the robot is stopped suddenly, it would fall. Regards