Unbelievable balancing robot - stabilizes an articulated inverted pendulum

Re:Unbelievable balancing robot - stabilizes an articulated ... by wwalker3 on Monday November 29, 2010 @11:25AM (#1950774)

It looks like a big linear motor like in the video is probably $1000 to $2000 dollars. Angle sensors are pretty cheap (just a few bucks). Then you'd need an A/D-D/A board to control it with ($500 to $1000).

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Re:Unbelievable balancing robot - stabilizes an articulated ... by hartror on Monday November 29, 2010 @07:19PM (#1952465)

And a smart PHD student, which are pretty cheap I hear ;)

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Re:Unbelievable balancing robot - stabilizes an articulated ... by sdfghjkjhg on Monday November 29, 2010 @08:40PM (#1952688)

Although the 'smart' ones are something of an endangered species

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Re:Unbelievable balancing robot - stabilizes an articulated ... by mkramlich on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @12:27AM (#1953198)

don't worry, one day some smart PhD student will create a robot that's smart enough to replace smart PhD students

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