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International News
Wednesday 12 August 1998
[Image] Issue 1174
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[Image] Leonardo's robot set to colonise Mars
By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent
--------------- LEONARDO Da Vinci's designs for a humanoid
External Links robot are set to take off into outer space
more than 500 years after the artist and
[Image]Interview with inventor drew the concept.
Paolo
Galluzzi, Nasa is testing an
curator of automaton built using [Image]
Mechanical Leonardo's sketches,
Marvels: held in the Queen's
Invention in the Collection at Windsor
Age of Leonardo, Castle, which experts
at the Institute say are better than
and Museum of most contemporary Computer image of
History and designs. The result robot
Science, of a collaboration
Florence between the
[mentions the 15th-century
Leonardo robot Florentine visionary
and and a 20th-century cybernetics expert is a
collaboration human surrogate that Nasa plans will
with Mark maintain the International Space Station and
Rosheim] - Quipo build habitats on Mars before astronauts
arrive.
[Image]Mechanical Mark Rosheim, an American robotics expert
Marvels: who built the automaton for Nasa, said:
Invention in the "Leonardo's anatomy drawings are unique
Age of Leonardo: because he drew through the eyes of an
The models engineer. They gave me the information I
[includes models needed to emulate the complex joints and
based on da muscles of the human body. I've used them to
Vinci's build Nasa a humanoid 'Mr Data' type robot,
drawings] - which we call an anthrobot."
Institute and
Museum of Leonardo's sketches of a robot knight that
History of could wave its arms and move its head via a
Science, flexible neck while opening and closing its
Florence anatomically correct jaw were first
discovered in the 1950s by Carlo Pedretti, a
renowned Leonardo scholar. Leonardo is
[Image]Drawings by da believed to have built a model of an
Vinci - David armoured automaton before he began work on
Reuteler The Last Supper in around 1495.
Over five years ago, Mr Rosheim began to
[Image]Ross-Thim investigate copies of Leonardo's notebooks
Designs, Inc held at Florence's museum of the history of
[founded by Mark science. Mr Rosheim said: "Carlo found the
Rosheim, puzzle; I put the pieces together."
includes patents
held by the After seeing Mr Rosheim's computer animation
company in of Leonardo's design, Nasa commissioned a
robotic design] robotic surrogate using today's materials
and technology but based on Leonardo's first
principles. Mr Rosheim said: "Leonardo's
[Image]Biographical technique of fusing science and art together
notes - led me to build a humanoid robot that
Leonardo da emulates not only the function but also the
Vinci Museum, movement, flexibility, sweetness and
Leonet roundness of the human form."
He delivered the £2 million anthrobot to
[Image]Breaking news Nasa last September. In place of the cables
- Mars Global on Leonardo's original plans, it has a
Surveyor, Nasa stainless steel skeleton and electric linear
motors for the muscles.
[Image]Multimedia However, the secret of its mobility is its
zone - Museum Leonardo-inspired articulating mechanical
of Science, joints. Mr Rosheim said: "All the
Boston anthrobot's joints in the spine, chest,
elbows, wrists and hands move like human
joints. The next generation has shoulder
[Image]Space science blades just like a human. All its movements
and human are articulated just like us. It's scary."
space flight
enterprises * Nasa's Leonardo robot will be shown on
agree to joint Tomorrow's World on BBC1 at 7.30pm tonight.
robotic Mars
Lander Mission
[25 Mar '97] -
Nasa
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