Category: Legged robots
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Soft Robot Walks by Repeatedly Blowing Itself Up
It’s hard to beat the energy density of chemical fuels. Batteries are quiet and clean and easy to integrate with electrically powered robots, but they’re 20 to 50 times less […]
Video Friday: Squishable Bugbot
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the […]
Video Friday: ROSE
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the […]
Pneumatic Actuators Give Robot Cheetah-Like Acceleration
Electric motors have helped bring legged robots into the mainstream, offering a straightforward and compact way of controlling robotic limbs with all the fancy control features you need for safe […]
Benchmarking Robots with Dog-Inspired Barkour
Inspired by dog-agility courses, a team of scientists from Google DeepMind has developed a robot-agility course called Barkour to test the abilities of four-legged robots. Since the 1970s, dogs have […]