Berthold Bauml would be to blame for with the downtrodden servatude of robots, or the impending robot uprising. He is the lead scientist in real-time dynamic motion planning at DLR. He developed a new advanced humanoid robot named, Agile Justin. It stands with a happy face on a terrorizing body.
Agile Justin is the new and improved sister of the older version named, Rollin’ Justin. Berthold stated, “…but with improved dynamical performance: 1.5x faster arms through different gear ratios; completely new wheel electronics and bus architecture, which allows a 500Hz control loop over all four wheels and steering DOFs on the mobile platform; 1kHz control loop for the arms, torso and hand DOFs,” when it comes to the improvements in Agile Justin.
The different feature from all the other humanoid robots and Agile is that it has full-body control. The full-body controls consist of, real-time coordination of hands, arms, torso, and mobile base for dynamic tasks. Phew, looks like I can out run this robot.
The technical details should be forthcoming in academic publications later this year along with demonstrations at Automatica 2012.
Even though I want to see technology advances, I hope Agile does not get a mind of her own.
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