Fast Walking Biped Robot, as Fast as Human

The robot walked 10.02m within 9.41s (1 circuit with the radius of 159.5cm), resulted in a speed of 4.26leg/s while the robot leg length is 25cm. This speed could compare to human whose word record of walking race is 4-5leg/s.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Biped
• Bipedal
• Robot
• Fast
• Walk
• Walking
• Run
• Running
• Speed

[BlackZero98]

Go, little freedom 'bot, go! For the swarm!

[paniq303]

@kilsikon7 nature is sometimes severely overengineering stuff, though. you can make a biped with much less than what a human needs.

[kilsikon7]

i'm not a professional or anything but i personally believe that most of the main factors holding people back is money, size, and power. if one was to study the human muscles precisely we realize that joints are in fact very loose and can vary in movable directions, the knee also has the knee cap which helps reinforce it. main issue is we can't make a extremely detailed humanoid robot yet for we don't have the necessary tools to do so(if we were to make a large version it would still be impossib

[VRagusila]

indeed, 10 years is very arbitrary, is just my (and a couple other researcher's) best guess. Human muscles are not more powerful than existing motors, yet humans can do so much more than robots, which means that power and torque alone are not the answer. I would apreciate if you can direct me to some of the papers or articles that "have all the information we need about both bipedal motion", because, as far as i know, there are a ton of unknowns about walking and running dynamics and control.

[staticfive]

And furthermore, using an umbilical isn't cheating. With a cable, we have all the torque we need for all of these applications... significant advancements in this field would almost singlehandedly necessitate the need for more powerful mobile power production and/or storage. Your quote of 10 years is completely arbitrary as well... it's not like you're going to be the one that finds the answer to all the bipedal robot woes--we're not waiting for you, dude.

[staticfive]

ASIMO fucking sucks. Every time i see that piece of shit it's arbitrarily breaking a leg and falling down a staircase. I swear if I had some funding I would make a bipedal robot that would kick all the other robots' asses. We have all the information we need about both bipedal motion, IK, and the reaction forces needed to keep one of these things upright, researchers just can't put two and two together to make one of these pathetic things WORK.

[VRagusila]

a lot of the basic researhc is not there yet. ASIMO is at the limit of the curent technology, and much more powerful motors are not expected for a long time. The key is conserving energy from step to step and concurent design and multidisciplinary optimization, where the body and control of the robot are optimized in the same time....

It cant be made in a year, it is much more than jsut building it... need to figure out how it will work.

[staticfive]

All you're saying is that YOU can't finish it faster than 10 years. No reason it couldn't be completed in a single year.... the serious limitation here is in battery technology, as standing/balancing robots will naturally require quite a bit of torque from a motor if they're pushed over. Plus, there's a bit of a circular problem--bigger batteries = more weight = more power needed = bigger/more batteries

[VRagusila]

about 10 years. i work in running robots field...

for a robot running and reacting to obstacles, 3 years (thats what i work on)

reacting to balance, 10 months (my boss works on it, Jerry Pratt)

interacting with objects, i got no idea...i dont know much about that research.

[Cedarfaced]

Stepping over obstacles, walking fast, running, jumping, moving up and and down inclines; reacting to lose of balance, being pushed; then tracking moving objects and reacting to them, avoiding, approaching, catching. All these skills combined in one agile robot, how much longer?