I recently discovered the very cool world of robo-one, these little guys are amazingly agile creations. A little pricey at $1300+ but wow.
I found this guy in pieces of about 20 step files, converted them to iges files and imported them into Max. To bad Max is such a dog with nurbs, the iges imports looked sweet but just a few brought Max to it’s knees.
Here’s video of a real one in motion 
http://www.kondo-robot.com/Movie/StepTo.wmv
Thats awesome!!
You gonna animate your guy
Nice one! where did you find the step files??!
Max is indeed ugh when it comes to nurbs…but then there´s still powernurbs and with Powertranslators you can import those steps as solids…But i actually wanted to ask too where you found those step files 
Regards,
Thorsten
found em :
http://robosavvy.com/Builders/se7en/KHR1StepFiles.zip
Google is my best friend…laaaa did daaaa
Regards,
Thorsten
good job thorsten!!
Ok, now that you got em we should rig em up, customize em a bit and write scripts to control them.
Then we can have them fight like real robo-ones. :twisted:
hehe I give this my definite stamp of approval! would love to see some dynamic poses for the lil guy.
sounds like a nice contest idea, no ? 
Nice render!
That robot is quite amazing, the movements, the balance, I’m impressed.
bring it on rerender!! lets battle!
Im riggin mine in CAT so it will be interesting to see if I can get the pivots to works properly!
Cool, I’ll hopefully get some time to rig mine up this weekend. Still trying to decide on a method. I don’t have CAT so maybe biped or just good old fashion bones.
Also considering some sort of scripted “control panel” where a series of servo movements could be programed.
control panel eh…
I haven’t had a lot of time to work on animating but I have gotten as far as to write a script that reads actual motion data and applies it to the model.
Here is a rough test using the KHR-1 Improved Forward Walk Data
Requires Quicktime 7 (if it won’t play in your browser right click and “save target as” and play from there. It crashes when I try to play it in my browser)
dam you eric! I havent had anytime to work on my robot!
Where did you get the mocap data from?
The motion data is the same used to program the real thing
ahhhh, that would be why his walk cycle is a little odd. Looks like he is about to tip over
yeah, that’s the “rough” part of the test. I just quickly key-framed him to move in the right general direction, right now the motion data is only making the servos rotate the right amount and at the right time. Also I think the movement is exagerated because there is not the slop in my rig that the real robot would have.
I would love to have him move correctly but I am not sure how to do it, IK is tough because my script generates rotation keys which IK ignores.
It’s an interesting puzzle, not giving up yet.
Thats crappy in a cool and terribly intersting way.
Well done
LOL, thanks Daforce! 