R Daneel: the robot that picks itself back up again
By Ryan Block 
posted August 19th 2005 2:00PM
posted August 19th 2005 2:00PM
We're pretty sure the last thing any robot-humanoid researcher wants to do fifteen times a day is pick up and
reorient a 150 pound machine every time it falls, but the R. Daneel Study 1 (whose name is not only an Asimov
reference, but means Responsive Dexterous Actions aNd Embodiment ELucidation) developed by the University of Tokyo is
officially in the running for our robot of the year award. Long gone are the days when you could disable a robot by
pushing it on its back like a turtle—looks like we'll have to come up with a new weakness to exploit in the
future.
[Via New Scientist]
LIKE BENDER!
So. . . Push it face forward?
Hah--flipping it is hardly an option these days. I've helped to build a FIRST robot (see http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/ if you're interested) for two years now, and both robots our team has built have either run me over or knocked me down.
With this new feature, I can see I'll need to wear football pads with my safety glasses.
Now all we need is to design a robot that can push other robots over and the great robot evolution will be complete.
Yeah, but can it do the centipede?
Now there's no escaping! Run you fools!
Sweet, sweet digital zoom.
So it can go from standing, to lying on the floor to taking a crap position. I know that's more than most robots can do even without their padded suits, but it seems like they mastered the hardest part. How about finishing the motion and actually standing up? Unless they just haven't refilled it's poop bin and this is actually the world's fist pooping robot. In which case, we're all screwed.
Did you see the picture without the padded suit? That robot is a straight killer!
The motion looks kind of jarring; I wonder why they don't have the robot raise himself up with his arms and knees like people usually do (aside from the fact that it wouldn't look as cool).
Breakdancing robot? It looks like it's only a step or two away from doing the windmill!
I can see the boxoffice now... Breakin' 3: Electromechanical Boogaloo!
nice futurama reference...
I guess my experience with Cow Tipping will soon be obsolete.
Damn, I thought this was some kind of sex robot since each of these frames looks like a sexual position. Not that I have a use for a sex robot... but I am a curious fellow.
Fishes,
narco.
Anyone else get Terminator vibe?
#3 - that would be the "knife in your back" model. Or how many bots' backs did you have to step on on your way to the top?
Looks almost as if it's shifting the weight of its legs to give it some distance for gaining momentum (kind of like how people get up after being knocked down in modern martial arts films).
Let's see:
1) The internet.
2) Wireless communications
3) This robot with a plasma torch in hand...
I'll be the first to welcome our newly coordinated Skynet overloards!
what if you push it forward? or to the side?
Robots Don't Kill People. The Government Does.
Lol, Embodiment ELucidation.
slightly erotic
What they don't show are the frames after the robot gets up and kicking the operator in the nuts for knocking him down.
I just don't understand why you would want to make a robot with only two legs anyway, when you could build something more stable and dextrous by having say four legs AND two or more arms. As humans we're limited by nature, but why disadvantage our robots. Come to think of it, I'd like to see robots with wings too.
I hope someone somewhere is working just as hard to make some kinda EMP gun so we have something to fight the robotic take over in the future. Then we can form rebellion factions and maybe send someone into the past to make sure this robot cant get off his back.......
Just shove the darn thing into a rusty culvert. That nifty standing-up trick doesn't work if its range of arm-leg motion is limited. Heck, *I* couldn't stand up if I was inside a big pipe. I could wriggle out, but you just KNOW that R. Daneel Olivaw can't. user0@pclabstest.com
"I've fallen.......... and I CAN get up"
First kudo's on the wicked digital zoom!
Second.. Why would this be on engadget? Bipedal robots that get up on their own have been around for ages. Heck, even Asimo can do it. I would of been more impressed if it did a kip up but then again i have already seen a robot do that. I think it was one of sony's robot? Ah well..
"Posted Aug 19, 2005, 5:32 PM ET by Michael
I just don't understand why you would want to make a robot with only two legs anyway, when you could build something more stable and dextrous by having say four legs AND two or more arms."
We can call it CentaurMan!
And no, Dr. Wily can't sue me for copyright infringement.
"Posted Aug 19, 2005, 5:32 PM ET by Michael
I just don't understand why you would want to make a robot with only two legs anyway, when you could build something more stable and dextrous by having say four legs AND two or more arms."
We can call it CentaurMan!
And no, Dr. Wily can't sue me for copyright infringement.
I think it's a piece of crap
All cynicism aside, I think this is a remarkable testament to how complex human movement is and how we generally take these motions for granted. So if one asks why make a robot that is constrained by our own evolutionary pressures, I'd argue that a few million years of evolution is a pretty good starting point coupled with the fact that most societies have been built with human dimensions in mind and are thus suitable for humanoid robots forms. Plus its cool to make something in our own image. Kind of makes us God-like. No?
Help! I'm stuck standing up!
I'm fine laying down, and I can get up, ... but once I stand up ... I'M STUCK!
(take a look at teh footage guys)
The real Electric Boogaloo!
Now it just needs to download Bruce Lee's moves and his ki yell, and he's all set to kick some humanoid ass.
Wow. Biggest acronym stretch ever. And I'm used to reading defense trade magazines where like United Technologies just absolutely falls all over themselves trying to call a staple remover the ARchAEOpTERYX.
I'm reminded of my senior year house, where we sent the cordless phone up and down the stairs via a bucket on a pulley - aka the RAPIDS Returnable Anchored Phone Interfloor Deployment System - with appropriate sponsorship stickers, etc. Second generation was a galavanized bucket, too, that bucket MADE you respect its presence if you drunkenly headed upstairs without due care.