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briandmyers  ·  3897 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: President Obama Plays Soccer With Japanese Robot Asimo

No idea. I will say that the gait of ASIMO is a lot more natural than the gait of the system I worked on, but there was a reason for this. ASIMO has a few huge advantages in this regard - its weight is known, its terrain is known (although to their credit, it does seem to handle limited slopes). The Rex exoskeleton, in contrast, has human cargo - of variable weight, and capable of throwing that weight around. Also, the Rex was designed with a stable gait - meaning, it was designed so that, if power or control is lost at any point in the gait, the machine does not topple. This requires it to move more slowly and deliberately than a human-like gait. A true human-like gait is really a controlled fall, and if you were to freeze at a random point in your gait, you will fall. That's not acceptable for Rex.