Originally Posted by OrgFarmCY
You sir are obviously not a golfer.
No, I'm an electrical engineer. I'm well aware of how robots work, thank you. And this one is ********.
Originally Posted by OrgFarmCY
A trend in modern robotics for the past several years has been "human replication". Make your robot as human-like as possible. Toyota had a robot that could climb a set of stairs, another japanese company has a robotic information agent in it's headquaters. These robot's were both very, very human, when they could have been a pair of legs with couterbalance, or a speaker and a PC.
True, but I'll bet this one is worthless off of a bicycle. How useful is that? How human is that? Not very.
Originally Posted by OrgFarmCY
Now on the "********-ness" of the robot, it's up for debate. If that robot is programmed with a specific route in mind, well then yes, it's kind of ********. Have motors on the hip-joints and timed movements for the arms. Ta-Da!
I'd say the odds of this thing following a pre-programmed path as 99%. There are no obstacles for it to avoid, no navigation. It just rides.
Originally Posted by OrgFarmCY
If however, that robot is equiped with a neural net and can sense on-coming objects and avoid them, that robot my friend... if freaking awesome.
I really doubt it. If that were the case, they'd be winning the DARPA challenge, and they could do it without wasting time, energy, and money on balancing routines with a 4-wheeled vehicle.
Originally Posted by OrgFarmCY
ps: Something in it's chest is oscillating. Anyone know what it is?
OMG IT HAS A HEART.