Tuesday, September 30, 2008

LATEST TECHNOLOGY: ROBOTS VI (MONTY)

Monty has one fully articulated hand driven by 18 motors and one gripper. Driven remotely by a human operator he is able to accomplish almost any task a human can do in person.

Target Environment
Indoors
Locomotion Method
2 Wheels
Sensors / Input Devices
6 axis gyro/accelerometerpressure
sensorsencoderslinear
potentiometers12 cameras
Actuators / Output Devices
20 pneumatic cylinders
2 DC motors
18 servos
Control Method
Autonomous
Power Source
Power and compressed
air through tether
CPU Type
Intel 80x86
Operating System
FreeBSD
Programming Lanuage
Python and C++
Weight
65Kg

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