non-human humanoid robot designs links ?

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To springboard off a topic that Gordon inspired ...

Anyone know of any links/photos of non-human humanoid robot designs out there ? Would love to see them! Even artwork .

( Sci American has a cool painting (?) on page 15 of their latest "Special Edition on Robotics" issue which shows a couple of humanoid but not quite human biped bots . I haven't found a link for it yet ... )

JCD

Rafael Deliano · Accepted Answer

There have been telemanipulators early on that tried to fit the machine to the operator: two arms, two cameras.

Mobot from Hughes:

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In Germany a similar system was Syntelmann. Prototype early 70ies controlled by crude exoskeleton:

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term plan: "astronaut" in space:

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by human from earth:

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mechanical part got complicated enough:

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to mention the lack of capable electronics & computers in those days.

The basic idea to model the telemanipulator to the operator is still viable, although there are hardly many such projects now.

MfG JRD

pogo · Answer

This one below is what I am talking about! The Mobot ... not so much.Thanks!

Rafael Deliano · Answer

The prototype was always two cameras and two arms, the "artists impression" of about 1970 was long-term-&-unlimited-funding.

There is some recent research and literature

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walking biped machines. BARt-UH ( about 2002 )

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the prototype for JOHNNIE ( about 2003 )

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at University Hannover, TU Munich. There is some "private research" too:

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Availability of cheap, compact, low-power accelerometers/gyros certainly does help. But i cannot see a similar breakthrough in the power-supply that would be necessary. The exoskeletons of the 50ies/60ies were roughly based on the assumption that anything down to the cigarette lighter would soon go nuclear anyway.

MfG JRD

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