The robot in the video below doesn’t swallow humans or look particularly daemonic; as a matter of fact it looks perfectly subservient. User rodmanLT over at the RoboSavvy forums has created this master-slave suit consisting of a dozen “big fat” potentiometers, apparent leftovers from the Soviet Cold War military might. The armbands and associated tethers allow the operator to control the upper-torso of a Kondo KHR-1HV, even engaging in some tennis and a quick game of Catch the Tigger. See for yourself after the break, then hit the read link for some earlier testing vids. Surely a robotic interpretation of Twentieth-Century Vole’s iconic The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights can’t be far away.
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Man builds master-slave control suit for robot; master plays tennis, slave makes funny faces originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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