Motion Capture Suit Makes Teleoperation Easy
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 28 of April , 2010 at 1:08 am
One solution to getting robots to perform complex and/or variable tasks is to teleoperate them. Arguably this removes a significant portion of having a robot in the first place, but there will inevitably be tasks that even the most complex and well programmed robot just won’t be prepared for. If you’ve been reading BotJunkie for the past three years, you may remember Monty, a telepresence humanoid from Anybots. Monty was a bit difficult to control, and at the very least required some training.
Mahru, a humanoid under development by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Samsung Electronics, makes teleoperation a cinch by using a motion capture suit (kinda like this guy built in his basement, but anyway…). Most notable is the smooth and quick responses that the robot makes, at least in its upper torso… They’re still working out some software kinks with the legs:
The idea is to eventually implement instant, full body remote motion control of a robot. Pair that up with immersive virtual reality and maybe a force feedback mechanism, that that would make an unbeatable telepresence system. You would still have to walk around, though, which may necessitate getting yourself a giant hamster ball so that you could move without actually going anywhere.
Mahru also dances (sort of). More video, after the jump.
[ KIST Cognitive Robotics ] VIA [ IEEE ]
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