Droid Builders Net » HUBO-FX-1 http://www.droidbuilders.net Community for robot fans, builders and programmers Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:57:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Sit Down and Walk with Chairbot http://www.droidbuilders.net/2007/06/07/sit-down-and-walk-with-chairbot/ http://www.droidbuilders.net/2007/06/07/sit-down-and-walk-with-chairbot/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:58:47 +0000 http://www.droidbuilders.net/2007/06/07/sit-down-and-walk-with-chairbot/
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    “What do you get when you combine a robot and a chair? The Hubo FX-1 chairbot, of course. In what is perhaps my favorite robot design yet, this giant chair with legs looks like it came out of some ridiculous 80′s sci-fi movie or something, but it’s very, very real. HUBO FX-1 is two meters in height, and weighs 150 kg. The person sitting can control the robot easily using the built in joystick. Each ankle has a 3-axis force/torque sensor which measures the normal force and 2 moments. Each foot has an inclination sensor which measures the angle of the slope. Also, the rate gyro and the inclination sensor of the body allow the device to stabilize itself.”

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