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the pulley at 1:45, i make those for a living
hobguy7996 2 years ago
reminds me a little bit of GizmoDuck from Darkwing Duck.
yusufer5000 3 years ago
Why does this useless contraption have an eye bolt mounted on the top of it? Could it be that the thing is suspended by a thin wire from the ceiling or some other anchoring point?
michaelk56001 4 years ago
Probably left over from the development and testing phase, to stop it from falling over and damaging itself.
AdamBailey9 4 years ago 3
Well, you sure are cynical. If you would bother to watch some of the other videos of the robot, you would find that it is for stabilizing and calibrating the sensors regarding the orientation and center of gravity of the robot while its balancing program is gearing up. The robot is purely experimental, and if you think everything experimental is useless, you have a dark view of the world, my friend.
crazydang42 3 years ago
Nice balancing job. The last paragraph of the textual description seems too far fetched. Speaking of "intelligent mobile robot" or cognition is clearly out of scope for the project shown here. But maybe the text has some value in applying for funding:)
kmaijala2 4 years ago
amazing
britoca 5 years ago
In the animated movie, "Robots", this is how Ratchets guardbots in his CEO office are built; on a single small ball to balance and move about on. Probably uses gyroscopes to balance itself similiar to how a Segway stays uprighted with a human on it.
bixlerscott 5 years ago
I don't think it uses a gyroscope, at least I hope it doesn't. That would be less interesting, and make it more rigid and less flexible. It's better to just balance the way humans do - by shifting it's point of contact with the ground relative to its center of mass and its movement. It needs a "balance sensor" - something to determine which way it's tilting, and a good balancing algorithm, but I don't really see why it should be too difficult, at least not in theory.
wrnqzx 4 years ago
It orients itself by shifting its center of gravity. It's top heavy, with the batteries and computers in the top, and the ball on the bottom acts as a wheel to move the bottom of the robot to just below the top of the robot, keeping it in perfect balance.
crazydang42 3 years ago
cool i saw this in a magazine
beemer567 5 years ago