Speecys MIRAI-RT
Speecys MIRAI-RT
by cdraptor
Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:34 pm
Well I am excited to announce the release of MIRAI-RT in Japan. I have been in contact with Tomoaki Kasuga at Speecys for a little over a month. They are working out plans for US release which I am very excited about. This is a very impressive Humanoid, well designed and very feature packed. I'll be following up this with more details and such, but for now I will let you be wowed by the videos. Tomoaki had spent two years on the Sony AIBO team before starting Speecys to focus on a humanoid biped. He has provided me these videos to release on YouTube for your viewing pleasure.
check out http://www.speecys.com - they also have English version of the site
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by limor
Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:00 pm
looks like a neat design although i'm not sure about his agility.
Servos are the same as the ones on the Futaba RBT-1 humanoid 7kg-cm.
Processor is RPU-50 instead of RPU-11 of the RBT-1 humanoid.
Specs look refreshing although the $3k price is not for the un-initiated:
hm.. not too sure about its chances in the hobby market. maybe some universities will want an all-inclusive platform with cmos camera, wifi and Linux (although finding drivers to additional peripherals may be an issue).
Give me the skateboarding Plen please.
Servos are the same as the ones on the Futaba RBT-1 humanoid 7kg-cm.
Processor is RPU-50 instead of RPU-11 of the RBT-1 humanoid.
Specs look refreshing although the $3k price is not for the un-initiated:
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Height: 33cm
Weight: 1.5kg
Freedom of Joint: 22＋LED Display
2 Speakers (Stereo)
LED Display 105 (Hands and Chest)
270,000-pixel CMOS Color Video camera LiPo Battery 7.4V 780mA or AC Adaptor (Rechargeable）
CPU RPU-50 (Futaba Corp.)
- SH3 133MHz
-RAM: 64MB, Flash: 64MB,
-miniSDSlot
-RS485, USB, Serial
-Audio
Servo RS301CR (Futaba Corp.)
OS SpeecysOS Rev.2.0
- NetBSD Base, with Robot control function
Wireless LAN.IEEE802.11G (USB)
hm.. not too sure about its chances in the hobby market. maybe some universities will want an all-inclusive platform with cmos camera, wifi and Linux (although finding drivers to additional peripherals may be an issue).
Give me the skateboarding Plen please.
by cdraptor
Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:19 am
Limor
Speecys has designed the MIRAI-RT targeting more so the software developer than the hobbyist. They're not looking at MIRAI-RT as being a RoboOne competitor, but more as an application platform. Internet based WIFI with strong SDK for developing applications - telepresence, remote security - communications. The hardcore hobbyists will be building out things like that, but I think it opens up a world of robotics to more the software developer.
The funny thing is the MIRAI-RT was the robot I was looking for when I started. I ordered the Futaba RBT-1 first because fully assembled, ready for R/C control without hacking around. Only downside with that is programming - not much. So I got the Bioloid to get more into it, programming is nice - I just got the USB board from Jon Hylands to hack around with AX-12+. I got the bug and started learning alot more about the electronics and I'm hacking the gumstix to the SSC-32 servo controller from Lynxmotion and building up my own little hacked creations - wrote some serial control software to control it. So I look and I've gotten in deeper than I thought, I like it but I also need to step out and build some serious applications - Basic Stamp/Basic Atom/Assembly on PIC - fun, but kinda raw. So the MIRAI-RT for me as a developer that is used to creating larger web sites and web application using various Languages like .NET, Java, PHP and APIs - I like that MIRAI-RT has all the good electronic stuff in a nice package which I can drop some of my crazy programming ideas on. No sodering or crimping wires to make connections.
I will be working on some cool apps I have been thinking about, the MIRAI-RT will let me get there much faster - but I will still be dropping down low level and hacking around with the Lynxmotion parts to try to create some of that from the combining of all the cool electronic components, controller boards, etc - it's some good fun.
Speecys has designed the MIRAI-RT targeting more so the software developer than the hobbyist. They're not looking at MIRAI-RT as being a RoboOne competitor, but more as an application platform. Internet based WIFI with strong SDK for developing applications - telepresence, remote security - communications. The hardcore hobbyists will be building out things like that, but I think it opens up a world of robotics to more the software developer.
The funny thing is the MIRAI-RT was the robot I was looking for when I started. I ordered the Futaba RBT-1 first because fully assembled, ready for R/C control without hacking around. Only downside with that is programming - not much. So I got the Bioloid to get more into it, programming is nice - I just got the USB board from Jon Hylands to hack around with AX-12+. I got the bug and started learning alot more about the electronics and I'm hacking the gumstix to the SSC-32 servo controller from Lynxmotion and building up my own little hacked creations - wrote some serial control software to control it. So I look and I've gotten in deeper than I thought, I like it but I also need to step out and build some serious applications - Basic Stamp/Basic Atom/Assembly on PIC - fun, but kinda raw. So the MIRAI-RT for me as a developer that is used to creating larger web sites and web application using various Languages like .NET, Java, PHP and APIs - I like that MIRAI-RT has all the good electronic stuff in a nice package which I can drop some of my crazy programming ideas on. No sodering or crimping wires to make connections.
I will be working on some cool apps I have been thinking about, the MIRAI-RT will let me get there much faster - but I will still be dropping down low level and hacking around with the Lynxmotion parts to try to create some of that from the combining of all the cool electronic components, controller boards, etc - it's some good fun.
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