Walky: Operating Method for a Bipedal Walking Robot through Natural Finger Gestures on iPhone

[aspetASPET2000]

is this app for free.

[MarceNet]

=D what a lovely mini-robot, this could be incredible in other aplications as well!! I really like it =D

[o0DeathStrike0o]

i wonder why they dont make a bigger version

[KcLee677]

Now, lf could only have a Eyes,hands,and a brain..so, it could think how annoy to see how much this human need a Slap on the head with newspaper..or a voice to say " You need to stop or don't make me go ROBO foot up you're bum.."

l love it,but l'm side with the bot..

[koviack]

PAINT HIM LIKE A TITAN

[wakeupfist]

This bot was made for walking and that's just what it does.

[t377y000]

someone needs to make a life sized one, that would be epic :D

[dynamizer2]

This Robot name is Tinywave.

[RogerFareham]

Saw this at the Siggraph Asia, AMAZING!!!

[dooly2009]

Nice interface! This interface looks like an extended version of "FWIP".

The basic implementation was published in 2008 (Kim et al. "Finger Walking in Place (FWIP): A Traveling Technique in Virtual Environments. In Proc. of the 9th international Symposium on Smart Graphics '08).

Then its iPhone/iPod Touch version was published in March'09 (Kim et al. "iPhone/iPod Touch as Input Devices for Navigation in Immersive Virtual Environments," IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, pp.261-262, 2009)

[2000danyx]

that was my presintation at my school!! we you it for powerpoint but were done that in november 24 , 2009

[dinosaursanwich]

nicely done

[Mantaurion]

lol what a bullshit

[ShadowxMaker]

that's awesome.

[infonaut01]

Great idea to use iPhone touch screen technology to mimic locomotion.

[arminask]

@infonaut01 seems like the iphone is reading gestures and making the robot play pre programmed moves, as opposed to following the exact motion read by iphone

[Snetigeren]

Amazing to see what you can do with gestures. :)

[Agent25i]

Should change the info to say... "We propose a gimmicky operating method..."

I was all for the fun of this, until I actually saw you toss the PS control aside saying it was, "too complicated to understand".

Not to mention the ergonomics of using an iphone, cant be good for prolonged usages. And lets be honest, when we're playing with our bipedal robots, prolonged usage is* to be expected.

[soricful]

super tehnology

[shadowace421]

this ill be amazing when they update that shity robot!!

[arandomgeek]

They should port this to Google's Android, if only so that you can control your "droid" with Android. Or would that get kinda confusing?

[stanburdman]

You fools, can't you see these machines will crush us all!

[Grazfather]

This is retarded. Teach a robot to walk, turn, and kick, then add a useless app on top to convert gestures into those commands. Movement isn't 1:1 therefore this is a huge gimmick.

[geewizzeranator]

this is so mad i gotta make me on of them

[Lpenhale]

this is amazing..