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Fifteen modules in a humanoid shape start in a prone position. The robot then stands up minimizing the torque seen at the waist module which must lift the whole torso. This was programmed using the "posable programming" (patent pending) technique taking 30 minutes (including constructing the humanoid configuration).
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| Humanoid walking |
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Fifteen modules in a humanoid shape walking. The gait is statically stable, so the motions are slow. Weight is shifted from one foot to the other in an open loop fashion. This was programmed using the "posable programming" (patent pending) and the PARSL scripting language. This is one of the few videos on the site that is sped up (4x's).
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| Humanoid summersault |
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Fifteen modules in a humanoid shape does a backward summersault. The robot does backwards summersaults and ends up in a no-hands headstand (conveniently his head is flat). This was programmed using the "posable programming" (patent pending) and the PARSL scripting language.
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| Gambling Robot |
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At the IROS one day tutorial 6 researchers put
together a robot that could place poker chips inside a toy slot
machine, depress the lever and almost collect winnings in the official
Bally's Casino cup.
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| Sensor-based Reconfiguration |
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The robot starts as a loop and uses an accelerometer to sense the direction of gravity. If it detects that it has turned sideways, it reconfigures into a snake and continues. If the snake falls over, it modifies it's gait so it's always moving correctly.
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| Tutorial at IROS03 |
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A tutorial was held in Las Vegas at IROS 2003 where researchers used modules to peform a variety of tasks. The tutorial ran for one day and included learning the PolyKinetic (TM) programming system and configuring the modules into a variety of shapes to for both locomotion and manipulation tasks.
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