Robots: mechanics of movement

[e_phemerart]

Automaton. Robot. Cyborg. Clockwork Doll. These things interest me. (along with golems, homunculi, frankensteins, revenants, zombies...)

I was IM chatting the other evening with a new acquaintance whose steampunk persona is a cyborg character. (cool) I was joking that bio-mechs would be useful right about now for me, as it would only require just a litle oil and tune up instead of days of flesh and blood to recover from my distance event excesses. Anyway, off on a tangent, I found some recent robot links.


http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/ynews;_ylt=Aqt4K3NGFacOY4_2nzNs9z2mG78C;_ylu=X3oDMTE2NGFhbTlnBHBvcwM1BHNlYwN5bi1yLWItcmlnaHQEc2xrA3ZpZC11bi1saW5r?ch=4226715&cl=12528119&lang=en I actually found this a little creepy, pairing the robot girl with runway models--both seem equally unreal.


http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/061505/Robot_runs_like_humans_061505.html

http://www.hsn.com/wowwee-femisapien-humanoid-robot_p-4441873_xp.aspx

reminded me of one of my (reseached but not gotten around to constructing) costume projects: Mia from .hack http://www.cyberconnect2.jp/hack/image/mia.jpg