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Message #08952
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Senior kyled@scruznet.com
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 11:08:34 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Pressure Sensors
I had that exact thought the other day. I beleive it's called "Static
Balance", as in the bot is never off balance. It doesn't fall onto the
front foot like we do, and it doesn't put one foot almost right in front
of the other, as we do. That's why it wobbles from side to side, to
shift weight from foot to foot. I think what they've done is great, but
they haven't really thought up anything new. Just spent a lot of time
and money. I think if any of US had the same amount of time and funding,
we could have done it.
My $.02...
Kyle
Timothy Flytcher wrote:
>
> You know Bruce, I have seen how the honda robot walks... Do we really walk
> like that??? I mean it just looks so god awful silly... and ... unnatural...
> I grant that it is smooth but there seems to be an ??? over-balanced look to
> it... Is it just because it moves in slow motion??? It shifts all it's
> weight from one foot to the other... as if it could just stop all motion at
> any given instant...
> Timothy...
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