Method-1 Manned Robot Project

There's quite some lag between input and arm movement there! I wonder if they're planning to improve that, to enhance the sense that the robot arm is an extension of the operator's real arm, or whether operators just need to get used to it. If the latter, I could imagine this being comical in the hands of an untrained operator, sending everything in their vicinity flying :)

Re: Method-1 Manned Robot Project

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Post by KON_Air » Sun, Dec 18, 2016, 11:35 AM UTC

camtarn wrote: post #8

drtse4 wrote: post #2

Better video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re6P7WP2N5w

There's quite some lag between input and arm movement there! I wonder if they're planning to improve that, to enhance the sense that the robot arm is an extension of the operator's real arm, or whether operators just need to get used to it. If the latter, I could imagine this being comical in the hands of an untrained operator, sending everything in their vicinity flying :)

Looks fast enough for industrial application. Though I doubt there is much use for a "slightly narrower and several thousand times expensive" forklift. I mean sure there is, but I can't think of any.

Besides stealing one and redecorating the city I'm living in.

With missile racks on the back and two recoiless rifles for arms. And backward legs. And a B52 cockpit. and clan wolf paint...

Re: Method-1 Manned Robot Project

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Post by sho » Sun, Dec 18, 2016, 11:57 AM UTC

camtarn wrote: post #8

drtse4 wrote: post #2

Better video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re6P7WP2N5w

There's quite some lag between input and arm movement there! I wonder if they're planning to improve that, to enhance the sense that the robot arm is an extension of the operator's real arm, or whether operators just need to get used to it. If the latter, I could imagine this being comical in the hands of an untrained operator, sending everything in their vicinity flying :)

> There's quite some lag between input and arm movement there!

Oh come on! This is literally prototype 1!

If anything I am wondering if this is fake. I didn't think anyone was this far along. And it's very, very shiny.