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▲DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors (spectrum.ieee.org)
45 points by sohkamyung 3 days ago | 13 comments
giantg2 2 hours ago [-]
I would love to see this with nitinol wire muscles.
mhb 1 hours ago [-]
Power use would be immense and it would be insanely slow.
giantg2 11 minutes ago [-]
Power use might be high depending on configuration, but speed shouldn't be that slow using capacitors. Sufficiently strong pneumatics tend to require quite a bit of power too.
NalNezumi 4 hours ago [-]
I opened the article expecting it was going to be about clone robotics https://youtu.be/5mSE6Tkhy4g?si=tDp0DUI9OOXAwsX2
henry2023 19 minutes ago [-]
Nightmare fuel
asn_tech_2019 5 hours ago [-]
Cool... their biggest failure pushed them to find what they are actually good at.
Markoff 5 hours ago [-]
It's robot from 1990 and no, there is no video of the robot actually walking.
bitwize 7 hours ago [-]
A guy named Walker developing legged-robot software is even more on the nose than a guy named Karpathy developing autonomous-vehicle software.
psytortilla_ 5 hours ago [-]
Oh my god, how have I never noticed Karpathy and Car-Path-y? Amazing!
ginko 5 hours ago [-]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
mrec 2 hours ago [-]
A noble principle, albeit not without its lamentable failures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspy_Engineer

micromacrofoot 50 minutes ago [-]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Armey
4 hours ago [-]
funki 6 hours ago [-]
Car-(em)pathy... Now I can't unsee it!

Thanks.

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