ASIMO is arguably the most advanced humanoid robot in the world, so why didn’t Honda put its multi-million dollar investment on the line during Fukushima? It’s not the cost, it’s that ASIMO would have been essentially useless. Despite being able to walk, carry objects, and even break into a short sprint, it’s not capable of navigating the chaotic environment of a damaged nuclear reactor. Just one bit of rubble in the way and suddenly your multi-million dollar robot has fallen over and broken after accomplishing nothing of value.
This lack of transparency has led to groundbreaking Honda engineers to work with disaster robots. All the work that has been done over the years, Asimo, Honda is already working on a robot that can climb ladders and is negotiating obstacles. The International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Robot design is described in two documents that were presented. When something needed to squeeze under a bipedal to quadrupedal robot can change the way that illuminates, and the use of ladders and narrow walkways covered with decorations.
It's always been the thing that has made impressive Asimo robots which are considered difficult for a human, such as walking. Why is the first humanoid robot in space, which is still unnamed disaster response to go all the trouble? Treaded or wheeled robot could be a more stable and faster, but the rest of the world (and especially in professional sites like Fukushima) designed for humans. Unable to use the robot rolling ladders, stairs, doors, and there are sidewalks. A humanoid robot will be much more effective. Honda is shooting up.
Honda hasn’t provided full details on how the disaster response robot works, but it appears to have a sensor cluster on the head and a large battery package on the back. The sensors make continuous real-time measurements of the robot’s position and velocity, allowing the software to compensate for any errors when walking or climbing. The same sensors help it move to quadruped mode without maintaining a static center of gravity. The transformation only takes about two seconds, thanks to a pair of flywheels in the torso.
There’s no target for when the disaster robot will be ready for prime time, but I imagine that’ll happen some time after they give it a name. “Experimental humanoid robot” doesn’t have the same ring as ASIMO.
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