The exoskeleton has hydraulically powered joints that fluidly
mimic human movements and sensors that detect and automatically adjust to the wearer's motions.
They are operated by complex computerized control pads, voice commands, and some can even
mimic human movement more precisely than Wii Sports.
Not exact matches
Boston Dynamics has produced a number of robots that
mimic human and animal
movement, including Atlas, a humanoid model that co-ordinates motion and balance using its arms and legs and can pick itself up off the ground when knocked over.
The same goes for music, he says, where beat and volume may
mimic the footfalls and distance of overheard
human movement.
To start with, the Telenoid will be trained to
mimic the
movements and simple sounds made by a
human singer, as well as associate parts of music with different emotional states.
Its learning algorithm generated rough skeletons of each person's
movement and used those outlines to infer
human intentions and
mimic their responses in social situations.
Ultimately, we hope to
mimic in a robotic hand the same freedom of
movement of the
human hand.»
It's a great exercise that
mimics a very basic
human movement of picking things up, ducking, and variations are used in sports and physical activities all the time.
Try this instead: Rather than
mimicking a
human corkscrew, add rotational
movements that involve the entire body to your routine.
However, if you study the
movements of an elliptical, you will notice that it
mimics the natural strides of
human running motion.
I suppose this was to be expected (he did Gollum in the The Lord of the Rings trilogy, after all) but I was constantly amazed at how brilliantly a
human could not only
mimic the
movement of an animal, but also invoke real audience empathy for what is just an animated image.
The actors were instructed to
mimic the
movements of their audience member counterpart, while reading aloud a text that included repeated references to nature and
human limbs.
Both individually and as a pair, Wood and Bisbee - Durlam perform repetitive
movement and laborious action against external parameters and challenges to examine,
mimic, and reinterpret the ways that the
human brain and body react to extreme events and damage, whether psychological or physical.
So it turns out some engineers based at Ford's HQ in Germany have been developing a robot that's able to
mimic the natural
movement of a
human bum - a * cough * Robutt, if you will.