Robo-Erectus Humanoid

After days of drawing different robot heads, this is the latest one. Basically I drew 4 robot heads and I am grateful for my choice of engineering instead of design (it has never been on my mind anyway). It's is obvious that I clearly don't have the designer cell in me, not that I did not try or I did not search for design inspirations, but sometimes effort is not equivalent to outcome.

I know they say you can learn everything, yeah boy you can learn how to use inventor but that doesn't mean that creativity comes with it. Well, it doesn't hurt me any more to realize that some things just do not work out the way you want them to. Since young, my art is beyond horrible and no matter how hard I try, my work has never been displayed on the board of fame.

Even I reject my own designs so I am taking the constructive criticisms openly, such as "the head is too round", "looks comical", "it looks like one punch man".......

Lets get back to the topic. So, the psychology experiment theory is that: As long as you look at something ugly long enough, it will become normal to you. 

Right after I designed this head, my lecturer and team mates said it looks ugly. The next day I open this up on my computer again, and they told me "It looks normal today."

P/S: Do not take this seriously and do not quote me on this psychology experiment. Do notice that I am just an engineering student not a bachelor in psychology. Treat this as a joke! Have a good day :)

It's been a long learning journey for gaits tuning, taught me a lot of stuffs. When we are young, there's this thing in science we learned call 'optical illusion', you'll realize somehow naked eyes are not perfect. A robot can't be perfect too. Working around limitation and minimize errors are what engineers strive to achieve.

I know it could be a very easy task for most of the engineers in robotics but it's something really new for us. After tuning for a few weeks we figured there could be an issue with the PID controller we are using, so right now we are still experimenting with it!

What's the difference? Bend leg walking is now changed to straight leg walking for power saving (Experiments will be carry out to confirm).


So we changed it to straight leg kicking as well.