Why Walking Robots are Easy

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I’ve built quite a few walking robots in the past. If you head right back to the start of my RU-vid channel there are quite a few large robots that could just about hobble along made out of wood and driven by windscreen wiper motors and other parts I could get hold of. I built these early in this century in the room of a house share I use to live in, which is why there’s a bed in the corner of the shot.
I’ve moved on quite a bit since then to some robot dogs that I’ve built recently, but a few years ago I built some bipedal robots like RobotX and my Walking Gonk Droid. These actually had a sense of balance, using an inertial measurement unit to read how far they were leaning over and make the motors respond accordingly to keep them upright. That can be quite tricky though and most of what’s on RU-vid is the good cuts of footage where it worked just about ok.
I’ve taken some of these projects to events like Maker Faires, and you’ll always find one person…
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@jamesbruton Год назад

I started a Discord! discord.com/invite/fc6MedG7eW

@shaider1982 Год назад

Wow, you got a shoutout from thundf00t on you tubers who can make better robots than Tesla Motors👍🏻

@user-rz2xe8kd6q Год назад

Established titles is fake and a scam you can't actually change you title to Lord or Lady.

@kayakMike1000 Год назад

@@shaider1982 dude, that is probably an insult. Phil has musk derangement syndrome.

@gatoninja4387 Год назад

TESLA BOUGHT THAT ROBOT AND THAT ROBOT IS A COPY OF THE COPY OF ASIMO TESLA I DON'T BELIEVE THIS ROBOT THAT'S WHY IT'S NOTHING NEW AND IT HAS THE SAME DEFECTS UP TO THE SAME JOINTS AND THE SAME DESIGN ONLY THE PLASTIC EXTERIOR IS DIFFERENT AND THE COLOR

@jajasi4752 Год назад

As a non engineer that has worked in the animation industry, I am very curious about why usually there is no rotation or torsion in the torso of walking robots, and why they don't use the arms to modify the center of mass even if they are not fully functional. Those two are insanely important for equilibrium and they seem to be completely underused

@monkemems220 Год назад

I would assume that it would have something to do with the flexibility of the hardware and the cost of manufacturing, could also have something to do with the extra weight making the robot less stable? I need a robotic engineer to confirm this

@rudrecciah Год назад

not an engineer (yet) but i do have a good amount of knowledge about robots--my guess is that it's too challenging to design arms with enough weight to actually change the center of mass. powerful motors are heavy, so to add arms you need to use motors powerful enough to support the weight of said arms, but those motors are now super heavy themselves, which means the arms won't be as useful. as for torso rotation, some robots like atlas do use it, but it's generally easier to design a robot which doesn't need torso rotation rather than try to implement it

@frollard Год назад

Typically they do try to use the arms and spine of the humanoid...but it's just another layer of inverse kinematics with multiple possible correct solutions and finding one before it falls over. (look at the boston dynamic clip at 14:55...that is very clearly rotating at the spine above the hips. The arms are pumping with the steps, but only enough to keep it straight. They would do more motion...but that would require the actuators to be even more powerful to justify needing more moment/cancellation of moment.

@rrteppo Год назад

Because using arms to modify center of balance is hard. Like it takes humans a long time to figure it out as babies hard.

@daliasprints9798 Год назад

@@rudrecciah Because everyone ridiculously puts heavy motors all over the place rather than just putting them where they want the mass and using remote drive (spinning flexible shaft, cable drives through bowden tubes, etc) with lightweight stepup and reduction gearing at opposite ends...

@YourArmsGone Год назад

I really like this robot. I know it's slow and awkward but the linear rails and shifting mass make it's movement very unique. It looks like a 3D printer learned how to walk.

@darrennew8211 Год назад

As long as they don't figure out how to open doors, we'll be OK.

@Galerak1 Год назад

It's great to see that your dad takes an interest in your work and even makes recommendations as to how you should accomplish certain tasks. It's strange how you never picked up his accent though 🤣🤣

@ersetzbar. Год назад

I think people tend to underestimate or simply forget how critical and complicated feet are for walking

@DrWhom Год назад

and that's just what they'll do

@simpasalsunda7244 Год назад

Yeah, even baby need to train a lot to walk

@Mr_Yod Год назад

@@simpasalsunda7244 Only human babies, due to the fact that they still have a lot of brain to develop after birth.

@Assault_Butter_Knife Год назад

I don't blame them, it comes naturally to us all and is something we do on a day to day basis on autopilot

@AnkhAnanku Год назад

@@DrWhom one of these days robot feet are gonna walk all over you

@lionhardt75 Год назад

Describing 2007 as "earlier this century" knocked me out cold. At 32 I'm freaking ancient. I was born in the late 1900s. 🤯

@Galerak1 Год назад

You're ancient?? Imagine how I feel being born 6 months before the 70's started 😂😂

@anon_y_mousse Год назад

You make me feel old.

@NeilABliss Год назад

@@Galerak1 Kid... seriously...yeah I'm talking to you Mr "I was born in 1969". Lol.!! I got nearly a decade on you...guess how I feel...well great actually, the arthritis drugs work well and I can't remember if I was in pain half an hour ago, so life's good. 😝

@Galerak1 Год назад

@@NeilABliss You win sir 😁

@Matty.Hill_87 Год назад

I feel your pain, I'm 35 and it still fucks me up thinking that the year 2000 was 22 years ago 😂😂

@jamesbruton Год назад

Should I attempt another Dynamically Stable Bipedal Robot project? This time I'd use the Quasi Direct Drives/Cycloidal Drives and Inverse Kinematics like openDog3.

@tiporari Год назад

Why not? I've seen you nail down the mechanical aspects of balancing and walking machines. As one of those commenters you aptly jest about, why not leverage some of that AI hardware you have laying around to improve the software? Your dog designs are great, and yet your commercial and university rivals let AI/machine learning refine the IK models, PID parameters, and gait patterns for more effective movement. You have the computer science chops to do it. Imagine humans with broken legs, joint and muscle pathologies, etc. What makes them ambulatory is their software IN Spite of their physical imperfections. Keep it up, you're a great engineer.

@tiporari Год назад

Some thoughts on feedback were the machine learning idea interesting, in addition to simulations based on IK, mass, etc., you can also play with computer vision, kinect sensors, heck, even VR trackers with lighthouses to allow for a physical machine to be part of the iterative learning process. You could do the crazy evolution with millions of generations, or simply chunk the problems and refine smaller parts of it over fewer cycles with training.

@fabiStgt Год назад

Absolutely! I find your approach of iterating your robot designs, applying what you've learned from previous projects fascinating. You have come such a long way with these desings, why stop now?

@wellerweller1499 Год назад

Maybe use your gyroscopic flywheel on rotator to handle the counterbalance and see how fast you can make it move.

@richardbloemenkamp8532 Год назад

Absolutely. Dynamically stable bipedal robots are the coolest thing. They can be quite high and I think they will be most impressive on shows. Another fantastic challenge would be any robot that can elegantly walk up and down stairs and maybe open and close doors. If you want to make something useful for society, you could consider a robot or machine that would be useful in elderly homes or hospitals. I think many people and schools/universities would be happy to see you endeavor in this direction.

@Mu-podcast Год назад

The way you built this new bot is how I imagined the Gonk droid worked (in universe) when I was little. I imagined a chunk moving back and forth, or some kind of hinged hammer-like thing swinging side to side to make it balance.

@Hirosjimma Год назад

This is such an amazing gonk droid mechanism. It really embodies its slow lumbering movement.

@torydavis10 Год назад

I prefer to imagine that (also in universe) the droids actually all have slave midgets inside them (except the big ones, those are full-size slaves) and the entire universe just pretends they're not even organic because it feels better.

@boogeyman8099 Год назад

I love how passionate you are about your work, always a gem to see the level of ingenuity you put into your videos, CAD Designs, and Robots. Cheers!

@ZeroInDaHouse Год назад

Can you imagine we live in an age where a 2005 tech prototype robot is used to pump the stock price of a car company. Not to mention its more improved and advanced successor had to be cartwheeled on stage by three people with a stick up its robotic butt. Amazing times we live in.

@QuantumMarmalade Год назад

No, too far out there.

@ingni123456 Год назад

Didn't we have Toyota Asimo?

@ZeroInDaHouse Год назад

@@ingni123456 You're technically right there. So basically, Tesla went for stealing the dumb's kid homework thinking it would get all A's :p

@kyleeames8229 Год назад

Yep, the whole upper echelon of our civilization is a stinking cesspool of incompetence venality and corruption.

@HVM_fi Год назад

Go watch the AI day 2, and say that again. What can you do.

@SuperShootter Год назад

This might sound weird but i truly hope the joy and wonder of making these robots, even one so "simple" hasn't been lost on you at all. I can only imagine the ammount of joy gained from seeing a creations first steps

@asquithea Год назад

The behaviour at 14:30 actually looked kinda interesting - makes me wonder what would happen if your robot had a greater focus on throwing mass around up top in two axes to create rapid dynamic movements a bit like some of your balacing robots, paired with lighter fast-moving legs to "catch" and redirect the movement to run (or stagger!)

@undiecover3939 Год назад

Look up advances in underactuated robotics, sort of similar

@scoops2016 Год назад

You might be able to damp the wobble by using a simple Input Shaping algorithm. This shaping process splits the acceleration into two phases, where the second phase cancels out the vibration created by the first. As always, an insane amount of design work done in an insanely short time. Another great piece of work.

@jumhig Год назад

Perhaps a good idea would be to mechanically link the leg lift with the weight shift - as the leg lifts it swings or rotates the counterweight to the opposite side of the machine.

@Luke_9 Год назад

That was such a nice smile when you were throwing that weight around 😁

@conorstewart2214 Год назад

Some STM32 chips can use their timers to measure quadrature encoders, it has the advantage that it keeps track of them in hardware so you don’t need interrupts or to poll the pins, you just ask the timer what the counter is at whenever you want.

@unknownhours Год назад

This robot is fantastic! The movement is very funky. Just needs some googly eyes on the moving mass.

@bentsprockettech Год назад

I am soooo glad you did this one. I put together a small tabletop version similar to this many years ago. Incredible to see one at a scale that would actually be useful for something. :)

@H34... Год назад

Even easier, have two "meshed" forked legs that walk over each other, like many wind up toys. Personally I was unimpressed with tesla's reveal, and I have serious doubts about everything elon claimed. The robot they showcased walking was doing a static walk, just like this robot. I'd be pretty keen to see you tackle a walking robot that's uses a control moment gyro, just like your one wheel balancing robots. I (and I'm sure everyone else) really appreciate your honesty and frankness with how things are going. You don't exaggerate what your robots can do and you show a lot of the R&D, and how you work step by step to fix problems and improve whats there. Elon could learn a thing or two from you. Love the sped up edit. Between how it moves and the music reminds me of older cartoons.

@DerSolinski Год назад

Oh the Tesla platform was impressive but not for the reason people hype it for. If they actually managed to build this in a years worth of time it is a considerable feat. It looks suitable for mass production and should be a good platform foundation to be expanded on. The static gait seen in the demo is mainly a software problem, and I'm pretty sure they toned it down a lot so it doesn't fall over for the demo.

@ThumpertTheFascistCottontail Год назад

Tesla's bot was boring. James' bots mop the floor with Elon's lame effort.

@NyeMechworks Год назад

I agree with ya, so many youtubers and stuff are not up front with the limitations of their builds, so when someone is like james here it is quite refreshing.

@adamrak7560 Год назад

@@DerSolinski right now robotics are mainly software limited. That is the really hard part.

@Nordlicht05 Год назад

@@DerSolinski they simply got people wich know what they are doing or did build a robot bevore. This will be a case in how much money can be thrown into it. With enough funding you simply buy what you need. Not necessarily stuff but people.

@watchimgo Год назад

I made a very similar robot when I was 10 out of Legos - I wish I had photos. I love your channel and it inspired me to make more cool stuff of my own (I'm a senior mechanical engineer with a bunch of robotics experience). If you ever need help designing any particularly complex mechanisms, I would love to help!

@c.fisherfighter638 Год назад

could you tell us how much time you take to make like each section? Because i know for you, this litterally no dig deal or its your "Job". But whenever i try to do anything it takes ages, so seeing your stuff is mine blowing. dedication👍

@naikrovek Год назад

ok you definitely need to do more impressions of people. "why don't you have it shift its weight while it lifts up the opposite leg? seems easy to me" rofl

@FifthConcerto Год назад

That does it. The ATATs don't shift their mass laterally, and having seen this, I now call foul! Unless the Empire just stuffed a bunch of Storm Troopers in the main body and they fly around from side to side as counterbalances. That would be hilarious, and mechanically acceptable.

@JinKee Год назад

Your statically stable leg system would make an awesome star wars droid

@MakerFarmNL Год назад

No compliment to your creativity and skills could ever be an exaggeration ! Again a very inspirational video, presenting the construction of a walking mechanisme as an easy thing. Fabulous!

@olikat9774 Год назад

the issue with the reaction force from high accelerations you mention at 14:27 could be reduced by using a trapezoidal or triangular motion profile where the acceleration and deceleration is limited rather than exponential smoothing which has high initial acceleration.

@AJB2K3 Год назад

there used to be a simple 2 servo bipedal robot, I would love to see your take on simple walking robots that could be made with toys like lego.

@MrSaemichlaus Год назад

James, I'm fully convinced you could build a hollow Easter Island Moai Statue that walks by itself by wobbling side to side and rotating between steps. You could use reaction wheels to cause the statue to wobble.

@CleanPhilWanted Год назад

If I ever see you at a maker fair I'm totally saying that to you!

@FrankGraffagnino Год назад

if you can drive the servos partially while one leg is lifting and a bit as it is coming back down, you could spread out the servo motion over a longer period and possibly make the turning less jerky (since the mass on top would rotate at a smaller speed). Great stuff!

@martin_mue Год назад

Would be funny to see this robot laying tiles on its path.

@Cai_VR Год назад

i really enjoyed that little comedy bit at the start james, keep it up!

@edwardhammock24 Год назад

A great vid James. I found the detailed construction bit really interesting, showing how to integrate off the shelf components. Many thanks.

@themakesmith4322 Год назад

Love your work James. You have no idea how much you inspire me on a daily basis

@avi8r66 Год назад

A working AT-AT would be cool as well.

@08Jacky15 Год назад

I wish you would still make more stuff with bipedal robots.

@jamesbruton Год назад

I'm considering it

@08Jacky15 Год назад

@@jamesbruton Glad to hear I'm really looking forward to it. Your videos have really inspired me for my own project.

@wolf1066 Год назад

Your "That _One_ Person" impression had me in fits!

@MrKfadrat Год назад

could you please make your own robot, slightly better than boston dynamics one, and put it as open source? i mean, id love to see tesla show something less embarressing next year, and we all know all they are capable of is stealing ideas..

@dissonanceparadiddle Год назад

Now now. Open source is too honest of a way for them. They'd never take it

@MrKfadrat Год назад

@@dissonanceparadiddle theres a simple fix. just put it under a license to allow private non commercial use. voila, were getting optimus prime like in transformers cgi next year!

@ianmilham7397 Год назад

Tesla developed their own in house actuators, motors, chips, neural nets, massive data engine, and super computer level processing. In less than a year. James is absolute proof that you don’t need millions of dollars to produce a decent robot that works most of the time and reasonably well. It’s an entirely different task to create a usable, reliable product that can be manufactured at large scale for an “affordable” price that ISNT a remote controlled bot but autonomously mobile and functional. So what exactly was embarrassing about the tesla bot? I think perhaps your frame of reference for their goal and project scope is a bit obscured and not seeing the forest for the trees.

@MrKfadrat Год назад

@@ianmilham7397 oh yea, and they developed a hamburger, original pizza, and sliced bread. if you wanna jump with that kind of fanboy bs - post links to support your claims, and tell me how is it better than buying shit that exists on market for decades?

@MrKfadrat Год назад

@@ianmilham7397 also dont forget about their own developed bricks, roof tiles with solar panels, trucks, hyperloops and cyber cars with unbreakable windows.

@davidbarrett7424 Год назад

Great to see you back on walking bots. Applying your knowledge to a biped would be great, but please a small one would be far more appealing to other makers 👍

@iancrone2906 Год назад

What a legend, you grew a beard just for one scene in the video.

@RegisMichelLeclerc Год назад

AFAIK, human walk is anything but stable, therefore trying to keep the robot statically stable at every moment (i.e. you power off, it's still in equilibrium at any stage), while human walk is a very different thing: if you froze when you start running, you'd fall. Thus, here comes the MPU and a lot more maths so you combine movements together (such as up+forward, or spin+up), including movements of multiple limbs (arm opposite to the leg, etc.) Also, a flat foot will never bring you too far. Try spinning half-hexagons instead of static feet, you may figure that you can use torque and forward motion to spin, and that springing your movements is just about controlling the instability mid-air...

@oswaldtime Год назад

As a technical productdesigner, I understood almost everything, and could really understand the reasoning behind the decisions.

@flink1231 Год назад

Love your mechanical designs! So much of these robots is about your creative solutions.

@Matty.Hill_87 Год назад

Your Impression of a channel viewer was absolutely incredible 😂😂😂

@OMNI_INFINITY Год назад

Thanks! Nice that a simple design such as that functions. Yesterday the stepper motor on one of My robots "passed away". Those need to be lower cost and lighter weight, so I can buy a replacement without worrying about if it will get on the plane easily.

@vesstig Год назад

My mind is blown by these projects, I cant wait for robots

@stellaoh9217 Год назад

You are surrounded by robots already. Soon....you will join us

@xinareiaz Год назад

That's a big bruise on your forearm, hope it doesn't smart too much! I'm always blown away with what you can accomplish in a week. I made a few servo robots in college and it would take an entire semester of work to get one working XD

@sk4lman Год назад

Tesla Bot will be available alongside the Tesla Semi, the Solar roof, the Hyperloop, the manned Mars missions, rocketships used as airplanes, full self driving, and robotaxis. I can't wait!

@wanglydiaplt 7 месяцев назад

Maybe ten years ago I built a prototype of a tap dancing robot called Paddy O'Furniture. I used Basic Stamp and pneumatics. It was pre-3D printing so the project was pretty primitive but I made a few observations along the way. One is that a tapping toe needs two axes of movement. The other discovery was that knees are also essential: tap dancing without them is pretty awful. :-)

@AndyPue Год назад

Hm, that clearly explains why the full lean over to one leg is slow and impractical. (Especially thinking they wont just walk, but may need to move payloads.) There could be some speed up by using pressure sensors on the feet to move the weight only far enough to notice either the supporting leg to not increase in load (took all the weight already) or get the leg that is being unloaded detect its not bearing load anymore. Could even start the raise of the leg a few % earlier and use the weight carriage slow down to add extra force 'off the leg'. Sort of using the inertia to use the force that made the walker fall to the side as extra speed.

@LoganKearsley Год назад

This is how I built two-legged walkers out of LEGO when I was a child.

@coalthedergsune Год назад

you just gave me an idea.

@akselwilliamdanenbarger7969 Год назад

Awsame perfect job, with the simplest mooving walking robot. A improovement is rotation, when you rotate pleae make it rotate faster with full rotary motchen, baybe with a pinion and sun-gear.

@Reac2 Год назад

My question is and always will be: "But why?" The human shape is so inefficient in doing literally anything. What is this robot actually made to do and what makes the human shape better at achieving that than literally anything else. So far the only real argument I've heard is "Looky like human, coooool. Walky like human wow".

@coalthedergsune Год назад

exactly.

@vodzurk Год назад

I'm curious why you didn't interpolate the upward and forward movement of the leg and have it sinusoidally starting and stopping so as to minimise the jerk?

@jannepeltonen2036 Год назад

Love the bright primary colours on that robot :D

@jaceyrector9320 Год назад

Would be cool to see a setup like a delta 3D printer used to balance. The mass could be lifted and lowered to reduce sideways inertia. And only one mass would be required.

@wayne6220 Год назад

Brilliant, love your enthusiasm.

@MrMaselko Год назад

It looks so happy when walking

@fluffypinkpandas Год назад

I feel like for a robot biped You should actually make it's hips wider And have mechanisms that smooth out the walk cycle to eliminate jitter. Taking a more feminine one foot directly in front of the other walk cycle with the sway necessary to ease into each stride and smoothly transfer center of mass in each step. Leaning into the next by rotating the hip. Just allow the knee to just slightly hyper extend and lock up when necessary. Feet articulation and things that help the feet change shape to distribute pressure, or work together to form a sense of springiness, is a big deal Listen it's not a kink It will just help it walk and balance better ....robot feet 😳

@Ducerobot Год назад

Heck my Annie is 6 '8" the chassis is built out of dollar tree items and the project can stand but has no gyroscope and can also roll .which I think is more efficient in my opinion. And heck yes I want to see another Bruton walking robot .I love those builds .they have good ideas😁👍

@sergioa.1530 Год назад

Wouldn't it be cool to make an AT-AT or an AT-ST like that?

@totalrecone Год назад

LOVE the Muskrat piss take at the start, James. That was golden.

@HVM_fi Год назад

Do all of TSLAQ watch Bruton why are you here? Tell me do you watch Phil Mason too?

@totalrecone Год назад

@@HVM_fi I'm here because Mr Bruton does what the Muskrat purports to do only infinitely better. If I ever see Mr Bruton present a guy in a spandex suit pretending to be a mechanoid as true engineering nirvana then I will start to seriously judge his mental state. Until then, as far as I am concerned, Mr Musk can disappear up his own Hyperloop.

@HVM_fi Год назад

@@totalrecone Damn you are sad.

@kevinbissinger Год назад

11:26 JUMP AROUND! JUMP AROUND! 🎶🎵 so that's what they were sampling for that sound effect in that song

@nowymail Год назад

What about a robot calculating where it would fall, and putting a leg in a spot preventing the fall? Sort of like a "controlled fall" that never actually happens.

@steveman1982 Год назад

That's what walking actually is :)

@serversurfer6169 Год назад

I was gonna say he could probably speed it up by sliding the weight back towards the swinging leg before it plants. But you're right, ideally he needs to plan ahead, so that the foot comes into position just as the robot's center of gravity crosses the centerline. 🤓👍

@anon_y_mousse Год назад

@@steveman1982 I think that's his point.

@blinded6502 Год назад

You also need to account for the shifting mass when you put down the leg

@Hirosjimma Год назад

It's impossible for me to tell if this is very clever snark or just you genuinely not knowing that's how walking works.

@davydatwood3158 Год назад

As a legal technicality, Canadians who participated in the Established Titles program wouldn't be able to use the title "Lord" or "Lady," because as part of repatriating the Constitution in the 1980s Canadians were barred from accepting UK honours and titles. Not that anyone would get in real trouble over it, it's just a bit of pendantry I felt like sharing. Also, I really like this design and want to stick it in an GNK droid, so thank you for sharing it!

@euglenii Год назад

Goes to show how simple things like walking are so hard to recreate, eventhough you are doing a good job with your inventions. Life is not created by chance.

@iAmTheSquidThing Год назад

Glad to finally see a guest appearance by Professor Noel Sharkey at 1:10.

@estebanf9282 Год назад

I would be very interested in seeing your take on pneumatic muscles!

@ShaneSemler Год назад

I actually think you’re on to something here, in principle. But servos may be the main limiting factor. Humans of course have multiple groups of muscles and a few servos simply can’t compare.

@ArtamisBot Год назад

I like that you went with the "hold my beer" approach for lodging a complaint.

@jackmino729 Год назад

Walking robots are incredibly easy, they don't even need complicated active stabilisation. Just build it with 6 legs and enjoy passive stability when both standing and moving

@franckcarton4137 Год назад

If it's just for left and right balancing, maybe a reaction wheel could do the trick ?

@jamesbruton Год назад

I've considered it, reaction wheel also cause a gyroscopic effect when they are rotating which causes some other issues.

@connoredwards7013 Год назад

Ol' Welsh James needs to make a return. Clearly the voice of reason :D

@recklessroges Год назад

Could you use the inertia to enable the leg to lift earlier? Effectively the robot would be "holding itself up" by the resistance to movement from the upper mass, rather than waiting for the mass to move AND for the entire structure to be stable?

@DrWhom Год назад

timing might be quite critical to pull that off, even the difference in kinematics between start from standstill and cruising speed (such as it is) might be significant.

@benediktbeutinger6774 Год назад

Maybe try a big tilting lever with weights on top next time. That could move faster than the carriage and balance the mass better by going fast and farther than needed and then jerking back to cancel the innertia.

@ReneVaeli Год назад

Now please do a robot vacuum which can climb stairs while vacuuming. I WILL BUY IT!!!

@Harlequin_Actor Год назад

This was a fun video, it did make me curious, is balance the main benefit of multiple legs on robots and/or animals? Like comparing spiders to ants to dogs to humans in terms of speed to balance. You would think many spread out legs give better balance but a slower pace.

@Hirosjimma Год назад

The fastest 4 legged robot can beat a cheetah in a sprint. The fastest bipedal robot doesn't go half as fast as Usain Bolt. Bipedal motion is so hilariously difficult.

@ryanhebron4287 Год назад

I don't know what it is about this particular robot but I absolutely love it. More than any of the others you've built which doesn't make a lot of sense since this robot is a lot more crude than the others.

@AJB2K3 Год назад

Love the Somerset farmer impression

@nonoyorbusness Год назад

Very reminiscent of the robots from Silent Running.

@pw.70 Год назад

I suspect James has been in a fight with one of his bots - that was a cracking bruise on his arm!

@punkkap Год назад

It look surprisingly elegant, I really like the motion. Thank you again, for sharing the cads. :)

@jasiu85 Год назад

The way it moves makes me think of a chicken bobbing its head :D Maybe they do it for balance??? :D

@AmitKumar-cf4ff Год назад

you could speed this up by lifting the leg up, moving it forward, and shifting the weight, all three happening in parallel. slight tilting on the robot as the leg lifts will be negated by the weight shifting. some trigonometry(the like you've already done in so many videos) should get you there!

@1111757 Год назад

I'd be interested if you could use this robot as a platform and write a more sophisticated control loop that takes inertia into account. In theory, you wouldn't need to wait for the mass to reach the other side if you could use the inertia of the mass decelerating to balance out lifting and moving the other leg in just the right moment, right?

@moth.monster Год назад

The real issue that Boston Dynamics bots have is battery. There's a reason you only see short demos and wired tethers.

@grahammcnally4799 Год назад

Go with the mass reaction and use a heavy pendulum to throw the mass over and then make it run :-) Love your videos.

@107kpl Год назад

Can you plz send me a link tell me where I can buy the DC motor and encoders you always use for your projects?

@andywest5773 Год назад

I see you've decided to use my simple yet completely original idea for how to make a walking robot. That will be one million dollars, please.

@pbxn-3rdx-85percent Год назад

I love it when the design used a lot of 3d printed parts, since I own one. I might be able to build a walking robot too. Joke: If only the terminators were built like this. Kyle Reese would still be alive.😄

@DamianReloaded Год назад

Really cool! I'm sure the bearded guy is so proud right now. Maybe a tiping gyro to lean sideways?

@takodragionextream3625 Год назад

Have you thought about using gallium or mercury with pumps to shift the weight balance of the robot,it would be self contained and lower the amount of moving parts necessary to keep balance mercury would have 3x the molar weight of gallium if it’s reasonably contained it may be a more worthwhile fluid to due this with it also has a lower liquid temp then gallium .

@zoeyk.6338 Год назад

Implementing S-curve acceleration may help with the oscillations seen as the mass starts to move

@DetroitMicroSound Год назад

The things you do, are 100% more exciting than anything Tesla does.

@Imru_gamer Год назад

You are a bloody genius. I have so much respect for you. Keep up the great work!! 💜💜😍😍🥰🥰😊😊🙏🙏🙏🙏

@alexthesage Год назад

You must use parallel execution of steps. Not step by step, but together 2 steps. You must use inertia to start the step earlier. You should consider using inertial counterweights. A human uses his arms, torso, head for this. Some animals have a tail. A robot with a tail is cool.

@jamesbruton Год назад

Yes that's how my other robots worked at the start of the video

@duskpede5146 Год назад

an idea i had to make this way lower tech is to have it so that the mass has an electrode on it and so does each side of the top which completes a circuit to activate the motors for the leg (which could probably be done using the same concept). which eventually activates a circuit to bring the mass back to the otherside

@polygonfighter6600 Год назад

additionally id LOVE to see how you'd tackle doing robots that are a bit more abstract (or Geometric?) where everything is function for its form. like the TARS robot from interstellar, or some other sci-fi stuff where the robot is basically a cube or shape that has sections that fold/unfold