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Great topic!
This is soo neat!
It now poses a new question;
At what point will robots actually be able to take place in real time combat??
Yes, we are very far away, but we are never the less on the path…
Will human sport combat be replaced by robot combat?
Will one day we see a kung fu robot vs a karate robot? This will be very interesting to see techniques played out in combat situations with out the fear of killing. A fight competition with no rules other than “disable your oponent”…
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OMG :eek:
A freaking mech power armor!!!
I dont have a language pack installed on this comp…
Are those weapons live?
My Japanese is limited.
However, the company makes agricultural machinery.
The robot only fires rubber balls.
It moves like a snail even slower than a Tai Chi practitioner.
But the concept of building one and marching in the battle field will be like an episode in Star Wars by George Lucas films.
give it 50 years…
give it 10 
give it 9, double
Freakin Mecha!!!
Will robot replace dogs and cats to be the companion at your home?
Check out “Waka maru” by Mitsubishi.
I got the news and photo from Chinese local paper.
Here is the link to the news in English.
Care for a Tai Chi pushhand or Tui Shou with “Hui Tong”?
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Real military robots:
http://www.defensereview.com/1_31_2004/Metal%20Storm%2040mm%20Grenade%20Talon%20Robot%20Demo_3.jpg
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/military-robot-14.jpg
http://www.gizmohighway.com/robotics/talon_robot.htm
I want one that’ll walk the wife to her car at night!
I guess they did it to to imitate the robot from Kawada industries:
http://www.plyojump.com/hrp.html
But the whole point of the HRP-2 dancing was to saving Japanese traditional dance from dying out. Does this mean we will need to save our forms from extinctions as well? :S
Tai Chi Robot
Qrio
Check out Sony’s tai chi robot. Sony and Nirvana Tech needs to stage a push hands match.
Dude… that is so freaking cool.
SONY Tai Chi robot:
yea dude. thats the sweetest thing ever.
very futuristic looking too.
long gone are the days of robots tipping over on the first 2 steps.
did you see the sweet kick it did? total awesomeness
Tai Chi Segway
Not quite a robot. More like a robotic skateboard. Click link for pic.
Professor, students build scooter based on Tai Chi principles
By Kim Medaris, Purdue University News Service
Posted March 17, 2009 (109 views)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Motorized scooters controlled through the use of handlebars are a frequent sight on sidewalks, but a Purdue University professor and his students have built a scooter that relies more heavily on the rider’s sense of balance.
Henry Zhang, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering technology, along with four students, spent several months building a hands-free, two-wheeled, self-balancing scooter based on the principles of Tai Chi, a form of Chinese martial arts that centers on focusing the mind and staying aware of your center of balance.
The scooter contains a platform to stand on, and the on-off, and turning functions are initiated by the rider via a remote control. Zhang said that what makes their machine unique is that there is no handlebar for driving or steering. Instead, these actions are controlled by the rider shifting his or her Tai Chi poses. The scooter is driven forward and backward through the rider’s self-balancing, and its turning is controlled by optical encoder signal feedback that monitors the angular displacement of the remotely triggered DC motor with gear reduction.
The machine was designed and built in Purdue’s Multidisciplinary Design Lab at the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology. Zhang and his students did the wiring, coding and assembly. The scooter has multiple functions and safety features with a real-time controller, latching relay system, drives and motors. Multiple sensor fusion perceives the movement of the rider and feeds the signals to the controller to slow down or accelerate the machine accordingly. The machine is powered with three 24-volt, 40-amp rechargeable batteries. The scooter’s top speed is about 15 mph.
Zhang said his goal with the project is to use the scooter as a tangible example of what he terms “hands-on, minds-on” interdisciplinary projects for learning and research that students can pursue if they study in the College of Technology.
Students working with Zhang on the project were Qiong Li, Danny Rodriguez and Ryne McHugh, all graduate students in mechanical engineering technology; and James Walls, a freshman in electrical and computer engineering technology.
thats awesome lol
will we get to see G. W. Bush get dumped on this one too?