<![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> Like someone else already mentioned that this is not a new technology. The hand featured in the 1st picture is basically an eariler version of the Shadow Hand, developed at Shadow Robot Company [www.shadowrobot.com] . The video itself looks like it's from Shadow Robot as well. Their contact information can be seen at the end of video.

RoadHazard

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> "Okayama University", not "Okinawa University"

uchiuchi

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> over at instructables.net there is a how to how t make a mussle like that.

swartz

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> I think festo.com's arms and muscles are even more refined than this version. Festo doesn't have extraneous tubes sticking out everywhere - they're all built into the arm. Still, such a cool idea. Hope it further develops into actual products reasonably soon.

GottaGo

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> (sorry if this is a double post...first time posting and previous post did not appear)

Japanese researches have developed squat...the "muscles" they use were developed by in the 1950's by J.L. McKibben...they are known as "McKibben Air Muscles".

Here is a company that sells them:
[www.imagesco.com]

Here is a project that used them to make a robot called "Stiffy":
[zaczek.com]

So, sorry Mr.Author, but this not some "new approach to robotics" because it has been used for decades.

Z-Knight

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> Japanese researches have developed squat...the "muscles" they use were developed by in the 1950's by J.L. McKibben...they are known as "McKibben Air Muscles".

Here is a company that sells them:
[www.imagesco.com]

Here is a project that used them to make a robot called "Stiffy":
[zaczek.com]

So, sorry Mr.Author, but this not some "new approach to robotics" because it has been used for decades.

Z-Knight

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> There is another company with similar technology:
[www.festo.com]
[www.festo.com]

starm_

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> Apply this tech to this previous post:

[gizmodo.com]

= robocop

Michai

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> Just wait until i turn these into Jax arms. Its gonna be flawless victories all over the place...

jarobi

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> Awesome to see this technology getting usable. Back in 97 I saw a demonstration of this at Ames Research Center in Mtn. View California. It was a simple leg that was mounted to a fixed plate and would take steps and jump.

Still pretty impressive at the time, and now even better.

Tried to find some links to that project, but like most things at NASA it is buried amongst pure text press releases and no fancy YouTube videos... pity :(

J. Shirley

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> Chinese handcuffs, anyone?

caliyalie

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> Would've been better if they used the Utah Teapot.

dingus

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> Not to be "That's old news" guy, but pneumatic muscles for robotics is _not_ new.
[brl.ee.washington.edu]

JackNapier

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> @RedBeard:

[uk.gizmodo.com]

RedBeard

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> the mass of muscles in the forearm looks strikingly similar to the design of the robot arms/legs in IRobot

RedBeard

]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Team Breathes Life into Robotic Arm Whose Muscles Are Driven by Compressed Air]]> god.. the gundums are coming!

kittenman

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