Wow that's just crazy...

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A robot on a bicycle named 'Murataseisaku-kun' developed by Murata manufacturing, balances as it is rides up a slope during an exhibition of CEATEC Japan 2006 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

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But can he do a bunny hop??

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nice! i want a video of it!

f*cking useless. You'd want a robot to do chores and tasks for you... and now who's the f*cking lazy lard ass who commissioned the developpers to ride his bike for him?

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They gotta start the technology somewhere. First the walking robot (which is still not mastered) then other locomotive tasks. Its pretty impractical, agreed.
But its just another step in the process.

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Originally posted by zokissima They gotta start the technology somewhere. First the walking robot (which is still not mastered) then other locomotive tasks. Its pretty impractical, agreed. But its just another step in the process.

In the process until the robots take over the world

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I'm guessing it has nothing to do with a 'robot biking' and everything to do with a robot being able to balance.

It would be much easier to get something to balance going downhill, because of the accerlation. When something is going up hill, it is moving slowly and even losing speed, which makes balancing that much harder.

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Originally posted by Orko I'm guessing it has nothing to do with a 'robot biking' and everything to do with a robot being able to balance. It would be much easier to get something to balance going downhill, because of the accerlation. When something is going up hill, it is moving slowly and even losing speed, which makes balancing that much harder.

Useless. Give the robot a Segway. problem solved.

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Pretty different if you ask me.

Just think about the direction of motion, and the alignment of the wheels.

Although you do have a good point, that you could probably adapt the gyros from the segway to work in this case, but this company surely wants to showcase its own technology.

he's so cute.

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Originally posted by Orko Pretty different if you ask me. Just think about the direction of motion, and the alignment of the wheels. Although you do have a good point, that you could probably adapt the gyros from the segway to work in this case, but this company surely wants to showcase its own technology.

Fine, I'll have this bugger run the treadmill and the stationary bike for me too at the gym.

Last thing I want is the runt have sex for me as well.

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