Saturday, April 23, 2011
Stripped Of Its Rubber Skin, Sarcos Dances For His Creator’s Pleasure
Crunchgear: "This robot, made by the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, is named Sarco. He is a human analog that can move just like a human being while balancing on two legs. In the video above, Sarco dances for his creator by mimicking a motion captured session.
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"Sarcos is patient. Sarcos is cruel. Sarcos remembers."
Something this is a little scary but we live in a culture that loves speculative and science fiction. So I found the video comment a bit funny. Of course this robot will become self aware and kill us all.
Regardless, as scary as it was a it was also very cool to see how lifelike the arm movements were. Interesting to see how a few weeks ago the horse puppet has such lifelike movements but they were suggestive: the wasn't exact replications of movement but something close. This is something much closer. Using motion capture software to program the robot, the robot is actually replicating human movement. Been interesting to see what this could be used for, other than robots choking us to death just like a human being would.
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