Dennis Hong, the founder and director of RoMeLa, a technology and robotics lab based in Virginia, gets straight in to discussion and video demonstrations of his robotic lab’s awesome robots in his talk below. The robots focus on various forms of robotic motion, such as walking, climbing and humanoid style.
I really think some of these robots are fantastic. They really demo some of the advanced strides in robot motion that are going ahead. Yeap, strides… motions… I made an awful pun.
More so than the physical engineering behind these robots, I really admire and am interested by the software engineering that control these robots. The programming and artificial intelligence structures that must be used to control this motion accurately are fantastic. Artificial intelligence elements must predict necessary adjustments for robotic leg motor must be very quick and accurate to deal with unstable surfaces, such as the walker on ice in the video above.
I admire the guys who engineered and programmed these robots. Legged robotic motion is still one of the biggest challenges facing modern robotics in my opinion, with computer vision and object recognition being the most problematic.
Does anyone else interesting in robotics or artificial intelligence have any other examples of robotic motion? Or how about a great demo of computer vision in action?
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Also check out our newest project called CHARLI
http://www.vt.edu/spotlight/innovation/2010-04-26-charli/charli-robot.html
CHARLI looks really interesting – a humanoid of similar proportions to an actual human.
I like that the research is taking a focus towards a bipedal robot that can interact with our existing human environment. Rather than an environment being built for the robot, the robot is being built for our environment. Fantastic.
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