August 28, 2007
guessing at the name of that German movie
the last heart?
kindness of strangers?
the other side?
last person standing?
other people's thoughts? [added later: close]
people standing?
[ I capitulate—I Google "German movie east Germany" ]
aha!
What time is it?
It's time for a Stanford robot from the CSD that goes up walls like a rock climber:
The goal of this research is to enable a multi-limbed robot to climb vertical rock using techniques similar to those developed by human climbers (Figure 1). The robot consists of a small number of articulated limbs. Only the limb end-points can make contact with the environment—a vertical surface with small, arbitrarily distributed features called holds (Figure 2). A path through this environment is a sequence of one-step climbing moves in which the robot brings a limb end-point to a new hold. The robot maintains balance during each move by pushing and/or pulling at other holds, exploiting contact and friction at these holds while adjusting internal degrees of freedom to avoid sliding.
Looks a little bit like a gigantic wristwatch with legs.
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