Honda ASIMO In Slow-MO
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 21 of October , 2008 at 3:31 am
Robots-Dreams had the brilliant idea to bring a Casio EX-F1 high speed camera along with them to a Honda ASIMO demo, and filmed ASIMO running across the stage at 300 frames per second:
It’s generally difficult to tell if ASIMO is actually running; that is, at some point neither of his feet should be touching the ground. The video shows that to be the case, albeit just barely. But hey, if you had a really complicated and expensive robot, you’d probably want it to spend as little time in midair as possible.
Although the video ends rather abruptly, it’s also interesting to see ASIMO go from running to not running by changing his gait and moving his center of gravity backwards (by straightening up) to slow down to a stop. Very cool.
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Comment by Eugene
Made Tuesday, 21 of October , 2008 at 3:43 am
Now everyone is talking about the American economy and eclections, nice to read something different. Eugene
Comment by Ironman
Made Tuesday, 21 of October , 2008 at 10:38 am
asimo should be remade so that there aren’t like a bajillion servos powering 1 arm.
a more biological approach should be taken… at least in my opinion.
Comment by ethan454
Made Tuesday, 21 of October , 2008 at 2:42 pm
Ironman: look up how many musckles it takes to fully move the human arm. I’ll bet you will be suprised!
Comment by ethan454
Made Tuesday, 21 of October , 2008 at 2:43 pm
*muscles
Comment by Alex
Made Tuesday, 21 of October , 2008 at 5:08 pm
Ironman: Asimo doesn’t have that many servos in his arm. He only has like 26 DOF (joints) in his entire body. He has 5 in his arms (shoulder x3, elbow x1, wrist x1). If anything, they need to add at least another joint to his wrist to provide more human-like motion in it.
Comment by Ironman
Made Thursday, 23 of October , 2008 at 10:42 am
I’m just saying there would be a more simplistic and realistic approach if they took a biological idea. I understand that our muscle groups are a complicated system, but i think that they’re within our grasp…. *yes they actually are IN our grasp*….. and would create a robot with better movement.
That’s just my opinion though.
and i just looked up asimo’s servos…. i was confused, there are 34 in his entire body, i thought it was 34 in one arm. Sorry about that.