Jason California
03-07-2010, 06:12 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3TGMjJLOl8&feature=player_embedded
http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/1534703
Kojiro is an advanced musculoskeletal humanoid robot under development at the University of Tokyo's JSK Robotics Laboratory (http://www.jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/). Kojiro's creators designed its body to mimic the way our skeleton, muscles, and tendons work to generate motion. The goal is to build robots that are light and agile, capable of moving around and interacting with the physical world in the same way our flesh bodies do.
I met Kojiro (http://www.jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/kojiro.html) during a visit to the JSK lab late last year. Masayuki Inaba, a professor at Tokyo University, and Yuto Nakanishi, a researcher and one of Kojiro's main developers, showed me their latest trick: using a PS2 controller to make Kojiro move. In particular, they wanted to demo the robot's spine motion.
more in link
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/kojiro-musculoskeletal-humanoid-robot
http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/1534703
Kojiro is an advanced musculoskeletal humanoid robot under development at the University of Tokyo's JSK Robotics Laboratory (http://www.jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/). Kojiro's creators designed its body to mimic the way our skeleton, muscles, and tendons work to generate motion. The goal is to build robots that are light and agile, capable of moving around and interacting with the physical world in the same way our flesh bodies do.
I met Kojiro (http://www.jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/kojiro.html) during a visit to the JSK lab late last year. Masayuki Inaba, a professor at Tokyo University, and Yuto Nakanishi, a researcher and one of Kojiro's main developers, showed me their latest trick: using a PS2 controller to make Kojiro move. In particular, they wanted to demo the robot's spine motion.
more in link
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/kojiro-musculoskeletal-humanoid-robot