Passive Walking Robot Propelled By Its Own Weight #DigInfo

[kennyvsspenny24]

You know what else can move forever going down a incline? A wheel.

[pietzeekoe]

Its squidward.

[SuperDiddzz]

a simple machine but astounding.

[desumeme]

Slinky 2.0

[epicwarding]

;DD Whats wrong with you guys? i think its awesome ;P ever seen anything like this?

[taleofrevenge]

Cool. Now make two legs walk!

[andreeaweed]

interesting video

[thesuelviana]

rum to the hills..wait to an ladder

[Daghead]

Sometimes a ladder will do this on an incline.

[ChefONator5000]

Walking robot made out of golf clubs

[uppon2]

@ 1:24 does anybody else think it sounds like he says Harry Potter

[giormax777]

Beautiful science, a machine developed anthropometric design with high technology, which offers perpetual motion is possible but not yet. Leonardo Da Vinci had a dream to invent a perpetual motion machine, but not so far today ... The invention of this video is comparable to a wheel [not up yet ...] But it will be possible to break the law of thermodynamics when these movements generate their own energy. Prosthesis is then applied to human, robot building, transportation of freight.

[idontevnoher]

Tad McGeer built an identical walking machine 20 years ago at Simon Fraser University, and I built one a few years later at Cornell.

...so there's zero novelty to the walker itself (I do like the treadmill though). the strap-legs are a cool way of tweaking leg dynamics. Of course this can be done with carefully placed add-on weights.

[FoneArc]

I love the old man just staring at it @ 0:15.

[ummmerrrrummm]

Hah, walking golf clubs

[xetrius]

Definition of Robot: "A re-programmable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through various programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks."

This isn't re-programmable or programmed and only preforms one task, there for this is not a robot. It is nothing more then a over scaled desk-toy, if this is a robot then 'Newton's Cradles' is also a robot.

[dedenmusa]

@xetrius agree, nothing special. :)

[latte123]

Very cool! I like the simple and elegant design of this. Nice and efficient.

[Zerokanu]

Nothing new.

[TubeofDestiny]

It might spawn better mechanical knees and lower energy cost for walking robots :)

If a robot can shut off most of his motors, or even recharge batteries while walking downhill, imagine the potential in terms of autonomy !

[DannyM1430]

This will cure bad parellel parking

[ELTONPAES]

Terminator Beta Version!

[3min3ntF4t3]

same concept as this one... watch?v=2BiIjEwIbBg

[Ca1mdownplz]

I'm pretty sure this will only keep walking if it has potential energy (aka a hill or treadmill). Not a perpetual motion machine.

[simplelife1021]

They should have just built this wooden toy elephant...

watch?v=2BiIjEwIbBg

[AkshXP]

INFINITE ENERGYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY­YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY­YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[badnagger]

this looks like dog from hl2

[iuno777]

terminator version 0.00001? :D

[bartua89]

who hear godzilla atleast two times?:)

[Robots4Sale]

I want to hire u

[TheGaragarape]

位置エネルギーだけ？？　別の要素もある気がするんだが・・・

[MagnusWinterwild]

GENIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[airlv14]

pretty ingenious mechanical design. This could revolutionize robotics since it seems to require so little energy to get it going. I can also see this as a pretty cool alternative to wheel chairs, and possibly a more convenient method to move around in.

[Menthex8]

Soon, very soon, things like THAT will start killing us!

[yksnimus]

@Menthex8 only if someone push it trough a window, falling into your head

[iugoeswest]

blah

[thecleto]

Guys it's a very, very interesting reserch...

[ThumbUpForTheMovie]

This is what happen when people are to lacy to carry their golf bats. (they make them to walk)::::..

[pozacathotmaildotcom]

It's a new golf bag cart...I see it already!

[nicman2011]

its called a wheel, pretty handy last i checked..already used on wheelchairs for the fucked up too..no need for your shinanigans sir.

[YTacc1100]

i can picture them marching on all the cities of earth !!

[casteraromablend]

The guy with an inferiority complex denies others easily.

[kevio74]

...or wheels



[eight88ball05]

this machine be used as a perpetual motion machine to create energy?

[saturnwing]

Bing go%

저 방법이 있었네~~

[SaiAkira0201]

坂道は登れないな。後、階段も。

[peterw4141]

Why isn't this demonstrated on a floor where no energy is being imparted after the initial push?

[juanricos]

@peterw4141 Probably didn't have a down slope. It can only go down.

[Lapidatum]

A very expensive Slinky

[GreenBeltMotherfucke]

all this robot requires is a push.. and .. a treadmill? haha

[halflings92]

@GreenBeltMotherfucke I do believe the treadmill is here so people can see it walk. They won't just let the robot walk all over the whole forum / office !

@robspor6 The goal of this robot is not to make it roll downhill without any controll, but to simulate human movement. If it can walk continuously and staying stable in a downhill, it will walk for a long time on a flat surface :).

[vlogprocrastinando]

@GreenBeltMotherfucke not to mention the dude beside it who keeps on pushin LOL

[ot00s1cko]

@GreenBeltMotherfucke You expect it just to walk all everywhere all over the convention? "yes..excuse me folks..if you'll just follow me following this self propelled robot I'll be glad to tell you how it works...."

[GreenBeltMotherfucke]

@ot00s1cko you have no sense of humor at ALL.

[ot00s1cko]

@GreenBeltMotherfucke Neither do you. WE CAN BE FRAY-YUNDS!

[arroyoemilio]

@GreenBeltMotherfucke jajaja and a motor.. and batteries

[TheSaltyAdmiral]

@GreenBeltMotherfucke

haha, its only for practical purposes. so it stays still:)

[narutolll]

@GreenBeltMotherfucke That's just to keep it in place... DUH...

[Humuhumu91]

@GreenBeltMotherfucke Um, it's going downhill. The treadmill isn't moving it.

[AClarke2007]

Gday, Jake! (the peg)

[pillzhereish]

What exactly is the accent of the first man speaking (at 0:04) ?

[seikanto3neru]

位置エネルギーを使って発電する仕組みはなんか中学生が発案した­とか聞いたぞ

[wzy181]

When I saw the title, I was thinking of Japanese.

[MrRoachclips]

what a waste of golf clups

[mtequalsempty]

@MrRoachclips what the fuck are golf clups?

[MrRoachclips]

@mtequalsempty lol CLUPS sorry i was drunk... or high

[mychannelvic]

Batteries Not Included. REALLY

[SuperMl10]

i want one of these as my pet.

[ampsurgeon]

Sorry. This is another example of a nerd inventing something just because it was possible, and not because there's any actual useful purpose for it. It's nothing more than a fancy pendulum. Without motors it won't be able to walk on flat surfaces or upward inclines. Wheels do this job much more efficiently. It's interesting, and I'd be proud of myself if I had built it, but I wouldn't be bragging about potential commercial applications. There are none.

[rawwad]

I am pretty sure they have version of this one with machine gun attached somewere in lab :))

[utupoe111]

Thumbs up if you thought perpetual motion was impossible...

[vavannnns]

Put the robot on the real floor (even perfectly flat if you want), and i bet it can't walk 4 meters...

[kylehyde28]

Interesting. Imagine these helping those who have hard time walking.

[spamtelevision]

the future is there

[s1dblack]

isn't this what wheels are for...

[robspor6]

I wonder what else perpetually moves downhill without electronics... *cough*wheel*cough*

[kylehyde28]

@robspor6 I didn't know wheels walk...

[EpiclsME]

@robspor6 Yea but a wheel gradually gains speed and will fall off the conveyor belt. This machine stays at a constant controllable speed.

[MrVogone]

@robspor6 haha!

[Lightice1]

@robspor6 Proof of concept is an alien idea for you?

[alphakristjan]

@robspor6 Yea , but this thing is way more complicated - therefor cool !

[leylink]

Seria bueno que se moviera sin la caminadora esta usando la fuersa de esta

[electrodacus]

I can also make a cylinder that will rotate on that inclined conveyor belt for even more than 30 hours will that also be on guinness book :).

[wasantube]

it's look like a walking golf clubs.

[bouxesas]

Useless

[ekpa]

"to begin walking all this robot requires, is a push"... Hmm, and why is this guy constantly pushing it forward?

[mario0318]

@ekpa probably because that particular scenario was on a slope. the record stands for 13 hours continuous walking on a flat surface. but i don't see why this wouldn't be resolved in the two years till commercial release

[HAVEANICEDAYFRIEND]

You think thats impressive, you should see the agressive walking robot!, get it! Passive, Agressive. Oh Comedy Gold!

[LookAtYrOwnName]

@sky6035 @overleveled

It's not meant to be used only downhill, is that what we use wheels for today only?

It's only a functioning prototype, applications are shown which could assist people in walking if they can't support themselves.

[stupidheadedzombies]

Perpetual motion doesn't exist of course it needs a slope to move.

[VGMtony]

thats it. i'm moving to japan.

[TheReplicators]

Lolz @overleveled. It doesn't need a treadmill; it needs a downward slope. That's what the techy said. But it's so no big deal. We already have something that can move on a downward slope. It's called wheels you scientists! Already been invented!

[OverLeveled]

But there IS power, if the treadmill wasn't moving the robot couldn't walk... I don't get what the big deal is. If you put this "robot" on the ground it would not move anywhere at all, thus, it does require power to move.

[sky6035]

if it's going down slope, why not just use wheels? no need for a push at all.

[FeartheReaper54]

Very similar to Theo Jansen's Strandbeests. Except he did it first.

[chilleverest]

THE GUY PUSHING LOOKS LIKE A ROBOT TOO ......LOL !

[gcoote]

This is basically just the world's most expensive slinky...

[buenosdiers]

can you generate energy from that thing while it walks?

[enlargemedia]

It really isn't going to be much longer before iRobot becomes a reality.

[ind0ril]

does the same thing as a ball...

[JonnyAppleWeed]

@ind0ril Balls don't walk, they roll.

[crashdown45]

So... it's a less efficient, weaker, heavier, more expensive wheel?

[TrickStatus]

@crashdown45

A wheel couldn't do what this is doing. Unless it was connected to an axle.

[TrickStatus]

@crashdown45

I'm talking about the treadmill alone, put a wheel or a disk on a treadmill and see what happens buddy.

[adreline123]

Science!

[Mikkelangeloo]

Make it bigger, conect some energy to it, conect it to human controlls = Avatar robots!

[forinner]

that's not a robot. it's really not any different from a wheelbarrow but then mechanical legs that walk on its own weight, that's something else. but still it's not a robot. i think anyone who reads this knows why

[IKNOWITSADUMBCOMMENT]

why won't they just use rolls?

[tiagopokerface]

anyone else thinks that this looks like those star wars machine thing legs??

[sandykoong]

it looks like its walking on stilts.

[tactilecoleman]

As I wrote in my first entry. Tad McGeer, at the time a scientist and engineer at Simon Fraser University in Canada theorized and designed passive dynamic walking robots because he believed it was a path to building energy efficient legged robots that mimicked human walking.

[tactilecoleman]

The bottom line is that the engineers in the video did not develop the design for this device; they made a very nice copy of an existing design that is almost 25 yrs. old now.

[lovelymess1973k]

@tactilecoleman hows that? who made the other design and what for?

[tactilecoleman]

See McGeer videos. Search "McGeer and Passive Dynamic Bipedal Walking" on YouTube: shows McGeer around 1990. Search "passive dynamic walking" on YouTube: shows a McGeer walker copy built by Mkie Civay in 2001 at Cornell and attributed appropriately to McGeer.

See McGeer paper on the subject: McGeer paper : "Principles of walking and running "Chapter 4, Advancesin Comparative and Environmental Physiology, Vol 11, Springer-Verlag,1992.

[tactilecoleman]

They seem to have shamelessly stolen this design from the work done by engineer Tad McGeer in the 80's and 90's. Also, there is no they could have developed it independently without knowledge of McGeer's work or copies of his work.

[jefresh123]

*Its

[Diginfonews]

@jefresh123 ;)

[serbo]

@jefresh123 *tits

[luciojamestan]

Duodecillian, moron. you asked why not a ball, ball goes downhill w/out energy. Well, the purpose of this robot is exoskeleton for human assistance. If ur the guy who's paralyzed or w/ muscle atrophy syndrome, maybe you want to be put in a ball & people will just kicking the ball with ur ass in it. exoskeleton will be used in repeated movement and are actually being used in japan n china for repeated human movement and heavy object in assembly lines (like automobiles)

Check website

3DTVcorp:com

[luciojamestan]

theend1245, you are another idiot, the energy isnt coming from the treadmill you moron. I am a certified licensed engineer.

The energy comes from potential energy brought about by gravity, the treadmill just enable idiots like you to visually see it. The treadmill's purpose is to mimic a sloped surface like a hill, if it was a 10 mile slope downhill, that robot can walk in a perfect line if it was a perfect horizontal plane and the bots was accurately measured.

Check the website

injap:com

[luciojamestan]

bikerus, judging by the way ask question, i assume you are an idiot.

The guy keeps tweaking it because of the limited width of the treadmill.

If it is like 1 kilometer wide going downhill from the top of a mountain, it will go on for 24 hours without reaching the edge since it is not a perfect horizontal plane.

If the treadmill was a perfect horizontal plane and the robot is accurate upto nanometers, then it can walk for days without going sideways (0.01mm each step).

Check the website

injap:com

[bikerusl]

Why does the guy keep tweaking it? What is he doing? Can this one also walk 13 hours or is this one different and for what reason?

[xevilstar]

that was on a regular surface..... irregular terrain is another pair of shoes (or legs for that matter)

[MrJetWave]

ok think, they could use this technology and create friction pads that charge batteries for when the robot needs to use power to walk. Yea. A self - recharging robot, no need to charge it or have an external power source.

[PWT7M7PZHM]

@MrJetWave Laws of thermodynamics say no way

[geofferzh79]

the Japanese are human hybrids

[qwer5722]

damn wat a future its goin to be :o

[kuadroplo]

el plano en que esta esta cosa esta a nivel? si es asi esta muy bien

[conspiritor2]

Nanousuit is coming... :)

[inuboy22]

Keep in mind that this robot has a third leg :D

[MemberMan080]

Imagine a milion of them walking towards you in line formations.... pretty epic to be honest.

[dekmew05]

well skynet doesn't need wires..

[johnjk07]

@persevere67 = no, it's using the energy of the treadmill - it's just utilizing it efficiently.

[persevere67]

um is this not perpetual motion?

[segacky]

Sweet, its walking on 5 irons.

[kuadroplo]

esto es movimiento perpetuo jajajja , felicitaciiones, Dios les de mas saviduria

[Mhax94]

for all of you who want to know the future overlords.

1.google

2.apple

3.facebook

4.japan

5.china

we are all doomed

[slopedarmor]

@Mhax94

I don't think apple and facebook will be there...

[Mhax94]

@slopedarmor ye, maby not ;)

[DagensMuppfaglar]

It's walking down a slope. It's like a football but it looks awesome

[moochabod]

perpetual motion?

[tekkeitserktok]

@moochabod nop, because there is energy under it ;)

[mynamewastakenthe2nd]

Well guys.. no need to reinvent the wheel?

[lutador1234]

there`s a alternative for moving a thing with potential energy.

it called wheel xD

anyway, japanese people are amazing!!

[Syeno]

Couldnt you put in some tiny generators into that and make free energy some how?

[cthatshit]

@Syeno for people thinking that it can generate free energy, it is true that it does not use any power but it does still have friction,heat, etc that will consume the energy in the system, and adding on generator will only increase the friction even more, so you cannot generate free energy. free energy doesnt exist anywayz, in this video it is just the energy from the tread transferring to this robot. not going to say its impossible but for now we still cant do it. =]

[Vanillemufin]

Eines Tages wird der Döner den Menschen ersetzen...

[antupogroms]

why not use the motion to generate electricity?

[Butt4cak3]

@antupogroms It would probably have too much friction to work.

[antupogroms]

@Butt4cak3 i recently view a video called quantum superconductors which they levitate an object. there's no friction.

[TheBIizzardStorm]

cool invention but why does this japanese guy always touch and move it while its moving

[Duodecillian]

Why not just make a ball? Balls always go downhill without energy too..

[ofgs2]

Looks pretty nifty

[jordison6]

und was bringt uns das jetzt? :D

[TheHackfleischhacker]

@jordison6 Was uns das bringt? Wtf- damit kann man zum Beispiel Gegenstände von A nach B bringen ohne Strom zu verbrauchen

[jordison6]

@TheHackfleischhacker ok aber das braucht noch etwas bis es so augereift sein wird..es ist jetzt schon viel zu spät, man hätte schon vor über 10 jahren anfangen müssen sich um die umwelt zu kümmern..und selbst jetzt hat fast jeder nicht begriffen wie kaputt die ganze menschheit die welt zerstört