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

We propose a novel operating method for a bipedal walking robot through personalized gesture expressions of fingers. Bipedal walking robot mimics the human walking for certain extend and fingers can be used as analogy to human legs. Moreover, fingers not only have visual resemblance but also can mimic actions of legs such as walking, running, kicking or turning, very easily. We are capturing these finger gestures as the controlling method for a bipedal walking robot. We believe that it provides a very intuitive controlling interface since user does not have to go through a complex learning cycle to understand the instructions. Finger actions are captured in both functionality and speed and transferred to the robot.

Yuta Sugiura, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Anusha Indrajith Withana, Gota Kakehi, Daisuke Sakamoto, Maki Sugimoto, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi, and Masa Inakage, An Operating Method for a Bipedal Walking Robot for Entertainment, ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 Emerging Technologies, pp79-79, Yokohama, December 2009.

Robotic Life Project -http://sugiur.com/roboticlife/
Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University -http://www.kmd.keio.ac.jp/en/
JST ERATO IGARASHI Design UI Project -http://www.designinterface.jp/en/
SIGGRAPH Asia 2009
-http://www.siggraph.org/asia2009/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• iPhone
• human
• bipedal
• walking
• robot
• JST
• ERATO
• user
• interface
• instruction
• robotics
• iPod
• touch
• computer
• finger
• gesture
• personalized
• keio
• media
• design
• kmd
• humanoid
• interaction
• japan
• control
• multitouch
• apple
• siggraph

[infonaut01]

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

[ShadowxMaker]

that's awesome.

[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

[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

[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.