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petek
15-09-2006, 08:34
Toyota has unveiled a one-legged hopping robot (http://www.physorg.com/news77352568.html). Darn! This would've been just the ticket for doing a slam-dunk on the Aim High center goal! Oh, nevermind - it can jump a whopping 4 cm.

Any bets on whether Dave will have one in his Kickoff animation this year?
JaneYoung
15-09-2006, 12:22
Wonder if its name is Pogo.

I used to spend all my time on a pogo stick.
Bill Moore
15-09-2006, 15:01
Toyota has unveiled a one-legged hopping robot (http://www.physorg.com/news77352568.html). Darn! This would've been just the ticket for doing a slam-dunk on the Aim High center goal! Oh, nevermind - it can jump a whopping 4 cm.

Any bets on whether Dave will have one in his Kickoff animation this year?
If Dave hasn't seen this yet, delete it quickly.

Otherwise wheels will be banned for 2007. :D
Richard Wallace
15-09-2006, 15:52
If Dave hasn't seen this yet, delete it quickly. Otherwise wheels will be banned for 2007. :DMuwha-hahahahaha!

Now I'll get to use my ultra-top-secret-patent-pending POGO-DRIVE! White paper pending after the Championship! :rolleyes:
Dan Petrovic
15-09-2006, 22:18
All I can think about when seeing that is the Pixar lamp hopping on the "I" in "PIXAR" and crushing it.
SamC
15-09-2006, 22:31
Muwha-hahahahaha!

Now I'll get to use my ultra-top-secret-patent-pending POGO-DRIVE! White paper pending after the Championship! :rolleyes:

hmmmm???? Makes me wonder.... :ahh:
dlavery
16-09-2006, 01:01
It is nice that Toyota has finally been able to catch up with the work that Marc Raibert (http://robosapiens.mit.edu/electric3.htm) was doing twenty-five years ago.

Of course, Marc's one-legged hopping robots could not jump 4cm. -- all they could do was jump over a meter high, bounce untethered down hallways, and do back-flips while running/hopping. :)

-dave
petek
16-09-2006, 16:46
It is nice that Toyota has finally been able to catch up with the work that Marc Raibert (http://robosapiens.mit.edu/electric3.htm) was doing twenty-five years ago.

Of course, Marc's one-legged hopping robots could not jump 4cm. -- all they could do was jump over a meter high, bounce untethered down hallways, and do back-flips while running/hopping. :)

-daveSo I guess this is just another case of someone reinventing the leg? Don't suppose you have any video? I'd love to see it do the back-flip!
dlavery
17-09-2006, 00:39
So I guess this is just another case of someone reinventing the leg? Don't suppose you have any video? I'd love to see it do the back-flip!
Check the MIT Leg Lab (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/) web site. There is a good set of short, small video samples (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/robots/robots-main.html) for some of their early legged robot work.

-dave