Skiing Robot!?!

[RR]

First there was the keg-bot, then comes the ski-bot:
http://www.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp/~shimizu/parareru.gif

Story here: http://www.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp/~shimizu/english.html

Thanks to jamin634 at TTips for finding this...

[PWDR8S]

Woah!

Is it OK to bump it off if they cut you off or steal your fresh powpow line? :p

[NtrentT]

Sweet, considering I am teaching Robotics this semister ...

[Affix Snow]

That thing is better on skis than Ispoiler!!!!

[BladeGirl]

Slick! And a snowboarding prototype too! Want to see that one in action.:D
The robot snowplowing is pretty cute.

-BG

[cbcbd]

Sweet, lets take it to the headwall and launch it off the icefall!!

No disassemble!!

[RR]

Sweet, lets take it to the headwall and launch it off the icefall!!

No disassemble!!Number 5 is alive! Reps!

[cbcbd]

Number 5 is alive! Reps!
Input, need input!!!

reps right back at ya for the recognize!

[RR]

Skins? I don't need no climbing skins!
http://www.johnny-five.com/images/sc2/misc/big5.jpg

[bubba]

That thing is pretty interesting as the person that did the programming understood the biomechanics of skiiing. I wonder how it senses increases in verticle and accounts for greater pressure on the edges?

But what's up with the poles?? Just proves that they are only there for balance and turn initiation!!

[M@]

It's naked - totally naked.

M@