RoboDevelopment: Anybots Offer Slightly Spastic Telepresence
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 29 of October , 2007 at 5:48 am
This is Monty, a teleoperated humanoid robot powered by compressed air. Despite (or perhaps because of) his questionable facility with dishes, he’s designed (in the near future, anyway) to perform tasks in industrial or hazardous environments that would otherwise require the physical presence and decision making skills of a human. He can balance on his own on two wheels (like a Segway), can carry up to 20 kgs, and will operate for “hours” off of a scuba tank. His hand is modeled very closely on the human hand, and is nearly as dexterous. As you can see from the video, operating Monty takes a substantial amount of coordination: a joystick in one hand moves his body, and a glove on the other hand will transmit the arm and hand movements of the operator to Monty’s arm and hand. In the second video clip, Monty accidentally knocks an object off the table he was at, so we asked if he was capable of picking things up off the ground (he didn’t look like he was designed to bend over). I was pretty impressed that he was able to do so, albeit with the operator standing nearly over his shoulder.
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Category: Concepts, Industrial
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Comment by MDude
Made Saturday, 3 of November , 2007 at 7:37 pm
Wait, scuba powered robots?