May 3, 2017 @ 20:21 | A bipedal robot, called Planar Elliptical Runner doesn’t need orientation sensors and computer brain to balance itself, its mechanical design is sufficient to provide dynamic stability as it runs. Inspired by Ostrich, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) researchers have developed a bipedal robot, called Planar Elliptical Runner. In this project, the […]
Apr 24, 2017 @ 17:05| University of twente researcher geert folkertsma has developed a prototype cheetah robot. Folkertsma has dedicated four years of research and development to constructing a scaled-down robotic version of the fastest land animal in the world, with a view to replicating its movements. Relatively speaking, the robot moves using only about […]
Mar 23, 2017 @ 19:11 | Quadrupeds, or four-legged animals, have different locomotive patterns depending upon the speed, e.g. walking, trotting, and galloping.Through this study, the researchers successfully demonstrated the reproduction of the quadruped gait transition phenomena. To save the body energy, Quadrupeds change locomotive patterns. For slow speed, walk gait; for medium speed, trot gait […]
Mar 6, 2017 @ 20:00 | The Legged robots are far superior to wheeled and tracked autonomous vehicles in real-world field applications but at cost of motion controlling complexity. Ghost Robotics, a leader in fast and lightweight direct-drive (gearless) legged robots, announced that its patent-pending Ghost Minitaur™ has been updated with advanced reactive behaviors for […]
Sep 25, 2016 @ 18:43 | Science of Safety – Portsmouth Robotics Demonstration Two of DOE’s premier national labs – Savannah River and Sandia – provide technical leadership and coordination in addition to demonstrating some of their technologies. Two other world-class federal labs provided their technologies – NASA and JHU-APL, which is a university affiliated […]
Sep 17, 2016 @ 13:39 | Ghost Minitaur is a patent-pending medium-sized legged robot highly adept at perceiving tactile sensations Ghost Robotics, LLC, a leader in research and development of legged, direct-drive and proprioceptive robotics technologies announced on 14th September 2016 that it has launched its first patent-pending direct-drive legged robot platform, Ghost Minitaur™. Founded […]
Jun 29, 2016 @ 17:56 | EPFL | Bio-Inspired researchers are continuously investigating different types of animal locomotion and trying to make such robots that can exactly mimic the natural motions. MIT Cheetah, CMU Snake, UCB Cockroach, Boston Dynamics Dog, Harvard RoboBees, Sydney University CROC and Greogre Washigton University Sea lion inspired robot are some […]
Jun 23, 2016 @ 19:20 | Boston Dynamics, the Google robotics company builds advanced robots with remarkable behavior: mobility, agility, dexterity and speed. The company has high payload and medium payload capacity quadruped robots for any type of terrain. They updated their latest Dog Series robot – SpotMini: mainly for indoor and low payload application. […]