Meet BirdBot, an energy-efficient robot leg - research published in Science Robotics

[@ProjectDarkwood]

If someone doesn't use this information to build a life sized robotic dromaeosaurid is it even worth it

[@HeWhoKnows777]

No it isn't worth it. That humanity doesn't dedicated 100% of it's efforts to robotics is also incredibly dissapointing.

[@horacefields736]

Excellent work and a terrific explanation. I have a feeling we'll be seeing many birdbots in the future.

[@helios6978]

fucking window xp

[@javierhillier4252]

your profile picture just made me realise how my profile picture is similare to the windows XP background lol 😂

[@РостиславГущин]

Надеюсь, эти технологии будут использованы во благо людям. 👍

[@bushman9290]

Although not mentioned, the first and last bird shown in this excellent video is Dromaius novaehollandiae, or Emu, a flightless bird of Australia.

[@Simplebutgreat2]

Great work guys! Seeing this reminds me of the techniek used for walking the robot "Kain" from the robocop movie.

[@anrede8495]

BirdBots walking gait looks quite cool

[@mbunds]

I see a lot of wires leading to various places on the limbs. Load cells?

[@ulforcemegamon3094]

No , the only thing that needs power is the motors of the hip and upper hip , these cables are for powering the tension sensors , there are images of the Birbot without these cables leading to the limbs , hope that clears it

[@mbunds]

@@ulforcemegamon3094 Thanks! Tension sensors = load cells.

[@alexgram4345]

What a COOL mech design - can´t wait for Skynet to go ONLINE!

[@mh1970]

Birdnet

[@jellyshonagon]

birdnet

[@zarodgaming1844]

The man who invented the wheel 4000 years ago, already being the perfect transport method: *how low has our civilization gone*

[@dr.rajasaurusandunclebonec6526]

How does it turn right or left

[@winterride]

Are you planning to open source the design?

[@Slayr.]

Imagine robots running like ostriches.

[@smithtorreysmith]

This is awesome!

[@hay_Z2021]

I wish people started making biologically accurate animal legs like this, as well as biologically accurate bodies for robots instead of elbows on a toaster like that spot robot, and other 4 legged robots, implementing this would be much cooler, not to mention more can be done with a robot thats more sturdy, needs less power, and can move better,

Thank you for sharing.

[@GWAStech]

Amazing ! ! ! 😮👍

[@Gadgetify]

fascinating

[@footfault1941]

Let's scale it up! Say, T.rex! Kinematics, GRF, duty factor, gait change to velocity ... You name it!

[@ulforcemegamon3094]

In a interview with one of the people who worked in the project , it shows the images of a scaled up version of the Birdbot legs , these legs are 1.75 meters tall , mostly made with wood with some metal parts , of course it has the cables and the springs, it weights 75kg and can support a max weight of 2234 kg as said in the interview kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZO9eGCfirp-j7c

[@footfault1941]

@@ulforcemegamon3094 thanks for a tip! Appreciated. The video was really cool.

[@ulforcemegamon3094]

@@footfault1941 indeed it was ! Birdbot feels like an scaled down version of a sci-fi robot , except that we can actually make it bigger

[@tisam1170]

This is opensource?

[@ulforcemegamon3094]

Sort of, the code along with the material list is in the description

[@mechengics]

@Rctdcttecededtef where are the cad files?

[@williamhuang5329]

Hanzhen harmonicc drive gear , robot arm joint , strain wave reducer, over 30 years experience

[@ryanmckenna2047]

Can someone link the paper?

[@DaScorp]

*Mechwarrior Timberwolf enter the chat.*

[@Hukkinen]

Wunderschön! I've for long had the intuition, that you could have a quite dexterous leg with only one DoF. This is it! There's a lot of passive computation done by the mechanics! Beautiful! 😀🦿🦾👌🙏

[@frontech3271]

It's got chicken legs! IT'S GOT CHICKEN LEGS.

[@GABM1983]

BT-7274 likes this.

[@cherylm2C6671]

Bird leg robots should work very well in sandy environments. Prosthetic?

[@dunzek943]

So this is how the emus won the war

[@darrenlocwood4663]

Bravo

[@flashkraft]

Cool. Now make an ATST

[@TeddyLeppard]

No reason why this kind of locomotion couldn't be used by a double amputee person also.

[@Wobblybob2004]

AT-ST?

[@RooZvonBooZ]

Metal Gear...? 👀

[@ulforcemegamon3094]

We are getting close to it

[@GetToThePointAlready]

Very cute

[@mbostic5193]

Someone at DOD is already hard at work combining this with an exoskeleton. 9 ft of horrifying up armored weapon mounting meat and metal mixture. If they dont i will lol😂. Anti everything mech suits.

[@3D_Printing]

It's for the Birds LOL

[@angelheart3011]

Works in small robots, in bigger bots spring mechanism won't work 🥴

[@ulforcemegamon3094]

I'm a bit doubtful of that one , there are springs which has a maximum load of 25 kilo newtons , add that is a off shelf spring and not a specifically designed one

[@BerndBuchegger]

Star Wars hatte also recht - der 2-beinige Walker wird endlich Realität! 😀

[@medioguitarrista]

Metal Gear is coming....

[@GoynetTube]

Super cool! Didn't George Lucas and the boys design this in the 1980's?

[@TheKevlar]

Brilliant, now where is the ostrich burger?

[@walterbishop6135]

who does this help other than the military industrial complex and psychopathic technocrats?

[@mho...]

a low energy, all terrain walking machine would be extremely useful in may situations!

[@ricomon35]

@@mho... You're trying to convince a paranoid. Just watch his self-made channel vids ;)

[@mikeg4972]

Robotics companies.

[@ulforcemegamon3094]

@@mho... agree , one of the issues of walking machines is the power they need to go around (energy) , making an machine with a high payload capacity that can walk over unestructured terrain while using not so much energy would greatly help for many applications