My Advanced Realistic Humanoid Robots Project

[Artbyrobot]

Here's the ribcage sculpt I did. I am making a fiberglass skeleton for one robot, using a pvc medical skeleton for a robot, and using a rod and hinge hollow steel tubing style design for another robot. I will compare each's pros and cons.

[IceDog]

So this is how replicants got their start

[Artbyrobot]

Here's my design for pulley based downgearing. Metal gears I think are too noisy so downgearing by way of pulleys seems best to me.

[extracomputer.1]

Originally Posted by Artbyrobot

Thanks Halcyon. But actually the spandex is the ligament substitute and the skin layer will go over a exoskeleton mesh scaffolding that acts as the muscle definition layer under the skin and the skin will be silicone with realistic tone and texturing for realism.

much better use of spandex than what I have seen it used for at the beach. I am still partially blind.

[Halcyon]

Originally Posted by extracomputer.1

much better use of spandex than what I have seen it used for at the beach. I am still partially blind.

I can imagine all kind of over the top fillers in a spandex onesie LoL..

[Artbyrobot]

Here's an exploded view of a ball bearing and two plastic discs that sandwich it in and the string that will hold it all together for my custom mini pulley design idea.

[Artbyrobot]

Side view of a pulley I made:

[Artbyrobot]

Here's a double pulley I made:

[Artbyrobot]

Here's a turn in place 2.77:1 downgear pulley I setup right next to the motor output shaft.





and here it is in testing:

[Halcyon]

My guess,
you always have to keep some thread-windings around these axles, esp. close to the motor, otherwise it will slip (and hard to restore when everything is already assembled).

This whole project is going to take a lot of work and perseverance. Goodluck with it.