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I wonder if this would make bi-pedal movement obsolete, or at least less important to innovate. There would still be need to move up and down steps, but this f
by jdrock 16y ago
I wonder if this would make bi-pedal movement obsolete, or at least less important to innovate. There would still be need to move up and down steps, but this form factor seems much more compact than current bi-pedal robots.
- eru 16y agoBi-pedal robots might not be that interesting in the first place. Insects might be a better role-model than humans.
- foomanchi 16y agoone major drawback to using a rubber coated ball like that is that it will pick up all of the gunk that it rolls over, and those omni wheels have a very low tolerance for obstruction before they get jammed.
- blhack 16y agoAbsolutely not. Can you imagine this thing trying to make it over a pile of sticks? Or a curb? Or really any obstruction of any kind? I don't think this is meant to be innovating in the "this is going to change the world" sense, but more "look at this cool robot I made!".
- abecedarius 16y agoMake a fancier version that can hop. (When this robot was sketched out in the "Inventions of Daedalus" column in Nature a few decades ago, he went into the how-to-hop issue too, though I don't remember any details.)