( March 9, 2022; IEEE Spectrum )
Description: "Kawasaki has been working on a "Robust Humanoid Platform" (RHP) called Kaleido since 2015, and Bex is a "friend" of that program. Add it all up, and Bex has wheels, legs, horns, handlebars—and a possible penchant for cargo."
This is Bex. It is, as near as I can tell, a robotic ibex, designed by Kawasaki and inspired by the fiercely horny species of goat native to many mountainous regions of Africa and Eurasia. Bex made its first appearance at iREX this week in Japan, and we should talk about why a Kawasaki robot ibex now exists, besides, of course, the simple fact that it’s just so darn fun to say out loud.
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The robot has knees with wheels, a seat, and handlebars. It is intended to fill a niche between wheeled robots and those that are modeled after humans. Despite the seat and handlebars, the primary purposes appear to be carrying light cargo and using its onboard camera systems for facilities inspections.
Read the rest from IEEE Spectrum: Kawasaki Robot Ibex
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I read the IEEE article, very cool!
This reminds me of robots from long ago. The article states that this isn't the first legged robot, and many of us have seen the legged ones from Boston Dynamic. This isn't the first animal robot either.
In the late 1940s a man in the UK named Dr Grey Walter made a pair of tortoise robots that could sense the world and respond in a crude way of course. These robots moved on wheels and had an early type of photocell to "look" at the world. It also had sensors in it's "shell" that could detect when it bumped into something.
I first read about this in an old Scientific American magazine.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-imitation-of-life/
Dr Walter also wrote a book about his tortoises called The Living Brain.
https://www.amazon.com/Living-Brain-W-Grey-Walter/dp/0393001539
You can read more in this wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grey_Walter
Also, there is video of Walter and his bots! Check it out!
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Those tortoises are pretty amazing. I can't open the SciAm link, but thanks for the YouTube link.
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This type of robot is good for mountainous areas or areas with a lot of unevenness in the ground.
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Our future is seen in the company of robots , there is no doubt , what I like is that they can help us to carry out different jobs like this one that could help people in different jobs that need help in relation to loads , however I think that so much technology will eliminate many jobs that we humans will be left behind, I hope I'm wrong
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Robotics is an amazing technology which can change all of the general trends of present time. Obviously how much we can develop robotics technology, we will be benefited more and our effort will be decreased to complete a task. Anyway, it is good to see that many company are now focusing more on this technology.
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