Easy to control. Very creative. And very usefull. A light interface that lets a easy control for heavy devices.

Posted at 12:15 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by t3rcio

I don’t care about the interface, that’s one of the coolest looking robots I’ve ever seen.

Posted at 1:27 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by Frank McSteez

arduino?

Posted at 3:35 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by bobob

what about MoonWalk? ;o)

Posted at 3:40 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by Harvie

I guess the next step is VR gloves to map fingers to legs 1:1 =)

Posted at 4:36 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by Voxar

This is actually garbage. It doesn’t interpret individual steps, otherwise turning wouldn’t be done as illustrated. They basically teach it to walk, then add a layer on top that converts walking motion back into the main command.

Posted at 4:47 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by Gdogg

I wonder how many HaD readers are old enough to remember were the ‘let your fingers do the walking’ phrase comes from

Posted at 6:10 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by jAMES

So easy, a caveman can do it!

@jAMES: It wasn’t THAT long ago.

Posted at 6:51 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by Alex Grant

The table they used was a bad choice for the robot’s feet. It slid around too much.

Posted at 9:07 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by Ben

Gdogg is right, this is a gimmick. Glue Iphone to something and hope it gets picked up by retarded sites to make your project more popular.

Posted at 9:08 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by rasz

@rasz, couldn’t agree with you more. Watching this video almost made me puke in my mouth a bit.

Just because something is attached to an iPhone doesn’t make it instantly any cooler, and in this case it actually distracts.

Posted at 10:47 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by neimado

Sort Sol – Let your fingers do the walking

Posted at 11:48 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by JMD

Better audio than that live one..!

Posted at 11:50 pm on Nov 12th, 2009 by JMD

What happens when the iPhone gets rick-rolled?

Posted at 6:21 am on Nov 13th, 2009 by dan

^Once Rick-Rolled, the robot starts dancing very badly. Wait – it was already doing that….

Posted at 1:44 pm on Nov 13th, 2009 by Hitek146

And here I thought “Let your fingers do the walking” was for the yellowpages. Marketing culture at its best, eh?

Posted at 12:06 am on Nov 15th, 2009 by Justin Lilly

As far as the comments of gdogg and the like go, the point, which you obviously missed, is to make the robot easy to control, which this seems to do quite well. It doesn’t matter one damned bit if it interprets each gesture as an individual step or not, and to gripe about that is to miss the point utterly. What’s garbage is your utterly useless commentary, not this system of control, which is simple and intuitive, something that anyone could use to control the robot.

Posted at 7:18 am on Nov 15th, 2009 by BobSmith

BobSmith are you mentally challenged? This is as intuitive as controlling car speed by spinning little tire mounted on a dashboard.

Posted at 8:20 am on Nov 15th, 2009 by rasz

@gdogg and @rasz yes rasz you get mentioned to because you had such an insightful reply. I think this interface is very intuitive. Once you get that it’s your fingers that are doing it you’ll be able to make it jump, kick and turn. I’ll bet you that if you give this to kids and don’t tell them anything they would figure it out pretty quick.

@Gdogg (more then rasz) Back to your issue which I think is a separate one. Yes it’s an illusion, but so what? They even mention it in the title it’s an -interface-. An interface between you and the robot. Sure you make motions which it translates into a “walk forward” command, but you could argue the same with a remote control. Pressing one of the sticks forward can make it walk as well. So whats the big deal.

And @Ipod/Iphone haters

Please direct me to the nearest wireless multi-touch display store. I mean come on as soon as somebody finds another device that’s also wireless, has a multitouch display, and is that dirt cheap I would like to know. Do you really want people to put disclaimers on everything.

“Hi, guys just made something cool please read my disclaimer first. I used an Iphone in my project, but I don’t like it nor do I think it’s cool. But nobody sells such cheap multi-touch wireless displays. Yeah I don’t want to be cool guys, just want to make something that works. Again not loving Steve Jobs really don’t like him at all etc etc etc”

I have an Android myself not an Iphone. Yeay for disclaimers…not.

Posted at 11:27 am on Nov 16th, 2009 by aztek

The deal is they used ipod only to make buzz, there is ZERO functionality added, in fact there was removed functionality, namely reliability got decreased. Now you got software layer trying to determine if your finger smudges mean forward or turn.

NO, you wont be able to make it jump, thats my point. This is as usefull as using your Wacom tabled for typing.

Posted at 12:35 pm on Nov 16th, 2009 by rasz