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Re: Seeking Strategies on Humanoid Robots/Walkers
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 1 Jan 1999 23:24:11 GMT
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Ben Laurie <[ben@algroup.]AvoidSpam[co.uk]>
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Andrew Phelps wrote:
> And the reason we are getting excited about this with the robotic legos is
> that Maya generates (or can be told to generate) data for each and every
> movement of an object in the world over time (ie animation). If we can get
> at this mechanism and tie it to a model of a real-life Lego creation then we
> could instruct the robot on what to do by pantomiming the motions we want
> beforehand using the animation software, and there motions could be complex
> using inverse kinematics and joint solvers.
This sounds very cool - but ... how will you stop it from falling over?
Cheers,
Ben.
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| Well, that is the million dollar question, so to speak :) There really is no predetermined requirement that says the figure HAS to be humanoid, so I suppose a four or six legged creature (or even a creature with no legs) would work just as well, and (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Seeking Strategies on Humanoid Robots/Walkers
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| (...) Maya is a high end 3D animation application made by a company named Alias|Wavefront which is a subsidiary of Silicon Graphics. -- And the reason we are getting excited about this with the robotic legos is that Maya generates (or can be told to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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