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Walky: Operating Method for a Bipedal Walking Robot through Natural Finger Gestures on iPhone

We propose a novel operating method for a bipedal walking robot through personalized gesture expressions of fingers. Bipedal walking robot mimics the human walking for a certain extend and fingers can be used as analogy to human legs. Moreover, fingers not only have visual resemblance but also can mimic actions of legs such as walking, running, kicking or turning, very easily. We are capturing these finger gestures as the controlling method for a bipedal walking robot. We believe that it provides a very intuitive controlling interface since user does not has to go through a complex learning cycle to understand the instructions. Finger actions are captured in both functionality and speed and transferred to the robot.

Robotic Life -http://sugiur.com/robotic_life-e.html
KEIO MEDIA DESIGN -http://www.kmd.keio.ac.jp/en/index.html
JST ERATO IGARASHI Design UI Project -http://www.designinterface.jp/en/
SIGGRAPH Asia 2009
-http://www.siggraph.org/asia2009/

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8 responses to “Walky: Operating Method for a Bipedal Walking Robot through Natural Finger Gestures on iPhone”

  1. Agent25i Avatar
    Agent25i

    Should change the …
    Should change the info to say… “We propose a gimmicky operating method…”
    I was all for the fun of this, until I actually saw you toss the PS control aside saying it was, “too complicated to understand”.
    Not to mention the ergonomics of using an iphone, cant be good for prolonged usages. And lets be honest, when we’re playing with our bipedal robots, prolonged usage is* to be expected.

  2. soricful Avatar
    soricful

    super tehnology
    super tehnology

  3. shadowace421 Avatar
    shadowace421

    this ill be amazing …
    this ill be amazing when they update that shity robot!!

  4. arandomgeek Avatar
    arandomgeek

    They should port …
    They should port this to Google’s Android, if only so that you can control your “droid” with Android. Or would that get kinda confusing?

  5. stanburdman Avatar
    stanburdman

    You fools, can’t …
    You fools, can’t you see these machines will crush us all!

  6. Grazfather Avatar
    Grazfather

    This is retarded. …
    This is retarded. Teach a robot to walk, turn, and kick, then add a useless app on top to convert gestures into those commands. Movement isn’t 1:1 therefore this is a huge gimmick.

  7. geewizzeranator Avatar
    geewizzeranator

    this is so mad i …
    this is so mad i gotta make me on of them

  8. Lpenhale Avatar
    Lpenhale

    this is amazing..
    this is amazing..

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