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Announcing: The AnthroPC Handbook
Switchblade:
AnthroPC develops an obsession with wearing sunglasses, long black coats, and adopting a name from greek mythology.
animatronic head:
I am a computer engineering student and robotics hobbyist who is working on a project that I think the readers of this thread would be interested in. For the past year I have been working on developing a simple biped walking robot. I recently got the idea to apply my work to developing a working prototype of an AnthroPC. Right now I am focusing on creating a stable walking pattern that fits within Pintsize's design constraints. Once this is accomplished, I plan on adding components to give the robot a personality. My hope is that this prototype can become a platform for me to apply what I learn in school in an entertaining manner.
battyone:
--- Quote from: animatronic head ---I am a computer engineering student and robotics hobbyist who is working on a project that I think the readers of this thread would be interested in. For the past year I have been working on developing a simple biped walking robot. I recently got the idea to apply my work to developing a working prototype of an AnthroPC. Right now I am focusing on creating a stable walking pattern that fits within Pintsize's design constraints. Once this is accomplished, I plan on adding components to give the robot a personality. My hope is that this prototype can become a platform for me to apply what I learn in school in an entertaining manner.
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Oh dear god...
gotyaoi:
--- Quote from: battyone ---
--- Quote from: animatronic head ---I am a computer engineering student and robotics hobbyist who is working on a project that I think the readers of this thread would be interested in. For the past year I have been working on developing a simple biped walking robot. I recently got the idea to apply my work to developing a working prototype of an AnthroPC. Right now I am focusing on creating a stable walking pattern that fits within Pintsize's design constraints. Once this is accomplished, I plan on adding components to give the robot a personality. My hope is that this prototype can become a platform for me to apply what I learn in school in an entertaining manner.
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Oh dear god...
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Seconded
Se7en:
Its near impossible though. Pintsize is a top heavy bugger, since most of the electronics are going to have to go inside his head. Also, his feet are the most useless shape imaginable, and his body is a aproximately a cube, little more than 120mm. Getting ANY kind of bipedal robot to stand up and walk properly is a pain in the arse, and getting a pintsize to support itself would require as much processing power as a segway uses, since the design has no stable standing position. You can count the number of off the shelf PC designs that will fit that chassis size on the fingers of a blind butchers hand anyway, so theres essentially no room for the movement processors, the servos, and the batteries.
As for an AI? your going to get as far as a glorified eliza, nothing more.
The anthro PC is probably 20 or 30 years away, but one day we will see things like the sony abio evolve to that level. Right now its just a fictional character in a webcomic.
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