Here’s a video of a student submission to the 2008 NHK RoboCon competition. The robot, who vaguely looks like a giant lego minifig, is controlled via a suit. The robot mimics the moves of the wearer. We can’t help but have visions of the clown from F/X2.
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this would be cool IF he DIDN’T dress the freggin’ robot up like a DOLL! why must everyone strip the coolness away from robots and make them look silly? It’s hard to take you or your project seriously when there is dress-up involved. Let the wires, servos and electronics hang out, because THAT is what makes a robot cool and projects interesting. Cover it up with some silly material, and you just screwed yourself out of a lot of respect.
Posted at 11:12 am on Nov 23rd, 2008 by walt
good ole Bluey… Duh Bluey looked like a guy in a clown suit… probably because he worked too perfectly? And they dress up robots because the eventual goal for these kind of things is to make them look more human.
Posted at 1:57 pm on Nov 23rd, 2008 by skeptic
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Ah, it’s like from that movie F/X 2. Except in the movie it was incredibly obvious that the robot was a guy in a clown suit.
Posted at 2:14 pm on Nov 21st, 2008 by Raley