http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/ Engadget Comments for ECCEROBOT emulates your musculoskeletal system, looks like Beaker from the Muppets http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 12th 2009 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 12th 2009 12:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 12th 2009 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/

Or at least a face.]]>Aug 11th 2009 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 12th 2009 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/]]>Aug 11th 2009 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/My Core2Duo is amazing and super complex, much more complex than anything I could ever come up with. Thank you God, you rock!

]]>Aug 11th 2009 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/You've got that right!]]>Aug 11th 2009 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/

Yea god!]]>Aug 11th 2009 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Good job buddy.]]>Aug 11th 2009 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/
God made the sun too? Busy dude. Wish I could just answer all of the most complex questions with "God did it". It's like a "That Was Easy!" button for life. No thinking required.



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Those things can arguably be blamed on the human condition, I was mostly going for things that are down sides to this "perfectly designed" meat sack. ]]>Aug 12th 2009 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 12th 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/
I don't believe in creationism. Because it's a myth.]]>Aug 12th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 12th 2009 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/
I've been waiting to have my arms and legs hacked off forever. ]]>Aug 11th 2009 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/
Students at the University of Sussex were apalled and embarrassed by the incident, vowing to fix the various programming errors, known within the community as "camping" and "f**king up the rotation".

In a press release, Eccerobot acknowledged his mistake and promised never to let it happen again.]]>Aug 11th 2009 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI9H4FoA0b4&playnext=1#t=1m14s]]>Aug 11th 2009 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 11th 2009 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 12th 2009 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/polymorph-robot-mimics-human-joints-and-muscles-puts-curtain-ri/

I'd love to see an update from that guy. It looked promising.]]>Aug 12th 2009 6:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/
Most useful robots (in the upcoming robotic revolution--as analogous to the PC revolution) will be rigid, I think. Humanoid designs make sense among environments designed for the human form but the energy requirements to keep them up and going limits battery life to rediculously short times. Bigger batteries just add more weight and thus require more energy, negating the point. I think future designs must focus on resolving these problems, as well as long-term reliability (meaning minimal and simple parts, too). I like stepper motors that push and pull by turning a screw, as maintaining a position doesn't require additional energy--only moving it. Also, a third, extendable leg for stabilization to perform work-in-place without expending extra energy might work, essentially putting the robot on a tripod post-mobilization.

I think we are about in the mid 1970's, analogous to the PC revolution. PC manufacturers needed standards for both hardware and software that we still lack. PC manufacturers also focus on planned (or at least welcomed) obsolescence to keep their markets lucrative. A successful robotics revolution will require a strong emphasis on long-term reliability that is contrary to this and thus not entirely compatible with capitalism. I suppose the industry will find a balance as such things are naturally homeostatic.]]>Aug 15th 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/eccerobot-emulates-your-musculoskeletal-system-looks-like-beake/Aug 15th 2009 4:42PM