RoboSavvy ForumRobosavvy Forum: The largest online community of Humanoid Robot Builders2009-10-28T21:22:24+01:00http://forum.robosavvy.com/feed.php?f=3&t=43082009-10-28T21:22:24+01:002009-10-28T21:22:24+01:00http://forum.robosavvy.com/viewtopic.php?t=4308&p=22527#p22527<![CDATA[Tomotaka Takahashi has developed a robot that jumps!]]> the animation that Takahashi manages to get out of his humanoids is amazing. i'm not sure the jump is really a jump in the sense that the robot's head doesnt get much further up than the standing position but he bends the knees in sync so it looks the works.
Statistics: Posted by limor — Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:22 pm
]]>2009-10-28T03:11:41+01:002009-10-28T03:11:41+01:00http://forum.robosavvy.com/viewtopic.php?t=4308&p=22520#p22520<![CDATA[Tomotaka Takahashi has developed a robot that jumps!]]>twice as long to spin one third the distance (180 degrees). This is quite an advancement.
]]>2009-10-27T23:40:21+01:002009-10-27T23:40:21+01:00http://forum.robosavvy.com/viewtopic.php?t=4308&p=22518#p22518<![CDATA[Tomotaka Takahashi has developed a robot that jumps!]]> ROPID (a combination of ROBOT and RAPID) can jump 8cm high, or roughly 1/4 of his total body height. The robot uses modified hobby servos. It also is equipped with a speech recognition chip and understands about 8 verbal commands.