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Kilika
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« on: March 17, 2012, 06:20:01 am »

Check this thing out! I had no idea they were getting this far advanced in walking robots. And when you consider the advances with robots like Big Dog with it's amazing balance, these things are getting to a point they could become a problem. You physically couldn't handle these things. All you could do really is attempt to disable it electrically. If they made these out of titanium (no pun intended!) and carbon fibre, wow, talk about a security guard!

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« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2012, 06:34:42 am »

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made these out of titanium (no pun intended!) and carbon fibre

If they made them out of that material they wouldnt be able to move. While these have great movement, they are still using electric servo motors. They would need to create a form of artificial muscle to make something like that viable. The servos just dont have the strength under gravity.

When I was in the Navy, I was trained to work on flight simulators, and part of that equipment had electricity, electronics, hydralics and pneumatics systems, which I had to learn how to work on. Titanium and carbon fibre are super strong and lightweight. FAR lighter than steel. And servos come in all kinds of strengths. I realize those Titans are for show, and not fully functioning robots, but my point is that if they were, man couldn't handle them.

The big problem with bi-ped robots is balance. They can make them move no problem, it's the balance while moving that they've had to work on. Up till fairly recent, we haven't had the technology in processors to run fast enough to manage one of these's balance during walking and running.
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« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2012, 08:50:20 am »

Well, Hollywood has been making movies over this recently - "The Terminator", "I, Robot", just to name a few. And it wasn't like a couple of "brilliant" screenwriters came up with these ideas out of the blue.
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« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2012, 09:35:07 am »

Wouldn't electromagnetic pulse disable them rather quickly?
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« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2012, 01:08:27 pm »

Titan the robot is the stage name of a robot suit [1][2] created by Cyberstein Robots Ltd in 2004, | url = http://www.cyberstein.co.uk/ | title = Cyberstein official website | accessdate = 2009-06-22 | publisher = Cyberstein
The robot is approximately 2.4 m (7.9 ft) tall and 60 kg (9.4 st)[1] and increases to 350 kg (55 st)[1] including the cart it rides on and onboard equipment. It was designed by Nik Fielding, who runs Cyberstein from Newquay, Cornwall, England.[2] Titan has performed at a variety of public and private events, from the Commonwealth Games and Alton Towers to bar Mitzvahs[1] and shopping centres.[3] Titan has appeared on Channel 4 and the BBC's Children in Need.[4  --Wiki


TITAN’S HISTORY

We are into the eighth year of research and development of the “Titan the Robot” concept…

Our company policy is to continuously push the boundaries of technology, extending our record of safety and reliability in all our products.

To date, there are five different models of Titan, all at different levels of automation. The first two generations being a type of power assisted suit (due to the weight of the top half being a pure robot).

Because Titan was designed purely to be an entertainment robot his job dictates which system elements are needed and moreover not needed.

Titan did not need to lift any objects or have tactile sensors to provide mechanoreception, so the initial weight of the actuators and torso were kept to a minimum enabling the robot to be more efficient and allowing us to progress more rapidly into research and development in other areas.

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http://www.cyberstein.co.uk/
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