Sentences with phrase «quadruped robots»

The researchers hope to use the robot to study the biomechanics of animal locomotion and eventually to come up with quadruped robots that can be used in search and rescue operations.

A handful of other robotics researchers — including those at Japan's Kyoto Institute of Technology — have over the past decade been developing quadruped robots, but none appear to have BigDog's high levels of adaptability, balance and perseverance nor LittleDog's intelligence and awareness.

This robot is the fastest in its category, namely in normalized speed for small quadruped robots under 30Kg.

David Johan Christensen at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, and colleagues, simulated a quadruped robot constructed from a dozen Roombots — identical rounded robots that can combine to form a variety of shapes (see picture).

«Look at a gazelle — all of its software is in its brain,» says James Kuffner, an associate professor at C.M.U.'s Robotics Institute, one of six teams of robotics researchers (along with the Florida University System's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, M.I.T., Stanford University, the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania) that DARPA asked to improve on the same basic LittleDog quadruped robot platform, built for them by Boston Dynamics.

Within the next three years, the U.S. military will test the feasibility of sending a quadruped robot out into the field as a trusty pack mule to carry supplies for its troops, wherever they go.

The current quadruped robot prototype is tethered to an open source board and an air pump.

Among them is a smaller quadruped robot that comes to life and makes its way toward the exit flanked by the original, much bigger Spot.

Not exact matches

Developed by EPFL's Biorobotics Laboratory (Biorob), the «cheetah - cub robot,» a small - size quadruped prototype robot, is described in an article appearing today in the International Journal of Robotics Research.

Outside of buying more aerial drones, quadrupeds are the Pentagon's best bet for upgrading their robot fleet, at least for now.

When people build robots, whether it is a humanoid, a quadruped or a fish, they tend to create very complex mechanisms, and this complexity often works against them by creating multiple points of potential failure, Valdivia y Alvarado says.

Led by George Whitesides, a renowned Harvard chemist and materials scientist as well as member of Scientific American's Board of Advisers, the group's best - known robot is a squishy X-shaped quadruped made from elastomers — stretchy plastics — and controlled by pumping compressed air through its network of internal channels.

«CREO's «robot dog» is a leaping quadruped designed to track down and kill any intrusions.

And there's already a new species of quadrupeds on the rise: A vanguard of four - legged military robots, BigDogs and WildCats (developed by Labs such as BostonDynamics), can already be watched practicing their jumps on YouTube.

Formed in 1992 by former Carnegie Mellon and MIT professor Marc Raibert, Boston Dynamics creates nature - inspired quadruped and bipedal robots capable of climbing walls, jumping high, running fast, and all manner of other impressive feats.