More info here!
http://www.festo.com/INetDomino/innovations_2005/en/ed9ee3f10acd3fa9c1256fcd005041f0.htm?SM+vg=00002
A long running project based on Fluidic Muscles has been to try to build humanoid robots. The first attempts we reported were by the Shadow Robot Company in North London, which to our knowledge originally invented the Air Muscle concept used in the Fluidic Muscle in 1982, and whose robotic hand was featured in Eureka's July 2002 cover feature story.
The complexity of emulating human abilities is immense - Shadow Robot has been developing its humanoid biped for nearly 20 years now - and so we were not entirely surprised when the Humanoid Muscle-Robot being demonstrated on the Festo stand got stopped.
This particular development is the result of a joint venture between Evologics, the Department of Bionics and Evolutionary Technology at the University of Berlin and Festo. It only attempts to reproduce human movements of hands, arms and torso in response to sensors attached to a human operator. It nonetheless requires four microprocessors, 52 position sensors and 52 actuators.
The goal is to enable telerobotic operations with full human abilities in hostile environments and advanced prosthetics. Development continues.
On Earth, in space or in the ocean: The humanoid realises highly complex motion sequences
Festo's fluidic muscles perform a completely different kind of bionic task in the humanoid muscle robot, which is a joint project of EvoLogics GmbH and the Faculty of Bionics and Evolutionary Technology at the Technical University of Berlin.
From a first functional study using a simple bionic arm in the year 2000 and various intermediate stages, this project developed into a torso with two anthropomorphic bionic arms and five-finger hands.
The key element for the technical conversion was supplied by the Festo fluidic muscle, whose tensile force is transferred torque-free by means of artificial nerves in the form of extremely tear-proof DyneemaŽ cords - even several joints away - to the desired final control elements. In this way, the drive unit can be arranged conveniently in the body and the mass of the moving parts be kept small.
The robot can perform programmed movements or be remote controlled online via a data suit or data gloves.
http://www.festo.com/usaMore info here!
http://www.festo.com/INetDomino/innovations_2005/en/ed9ee3f10acd3fa9c1256fcd005041f0.htm?SM+vg=00002
A long running proj...all »More info here!
http://www.festo.com/INetDomino/innovations_2005/en/ed9ee3f10acd3fa9c1256fcd005041f0.htm?SM+vg=00002
A long running project based on Fluidic Muscles has been to try to build humanoid robots. The first attempts we reported were by the Shadow Robot Company in North London, which to our knowledge originally invented the Air Muscle concept used in the Fluidic Muscle in 1982, and whose robotic hand was featured in Eureka's July 2002 cover feature story.
The complexity of emulating human abilities is immense - Shadow Robot has been developing its humanoid biped for nearly 20 years now - and so we were not entirely surprised when the Humanoid Muscle-Robot being demonstrated on the Festo stand got stopped.
This particular development is the result of a joint venture between Evologics, the Department of Bionics and Evolutionary Technology at the University of Berlin and Festo. It only attempts to reproduce human movements of hands, arms and torso in response to sensors attached to a human operator. It nonetheless requires four microprocessors, 52 position sensors and 52 actuators.
The goal is to enable telerobotic operations with full human abilities in hostile environments and advanced prosthetics. Development continues.
On Earth, in space or in the ocean: The humanoid realises highly complex motion sequences
Festo's fluidic muscles perform a completely different kind of bionic task in the humanoid muscle robot, which is a joint project of EvoLogics GmbH and the Faculty of Bionics and Evolutionary Technology at the Technical University of Berlin.
From a first functional study using a simple bionic arm in the year 2000 and various intermediate stages, this project developed into a torso with two anthropomorphic bionic arms and five-finger hands.
The key element for the technical conversion was supplied by the Festo fluidic muscle, whose tensile force is transferred torque-free by means of artificial nerves in the form of extremely tear-proof DyneemaŽ cords - even several joints away - to the desired final control elements. In this way, the drive unit can be arranged conveniently in the body and the mass of the moving parts be kept small.
The robot can perform programmed movements or be remote controlled online via a data suit or data gloves.
http://www.festo.com/usa«
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