Posts Tagged Robotics Lab
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Cody: A New Humanoid Mobile-Manipulating Robot
Georgia Tech's Healthcare Robotics Lab creates a new humanoid robot called Cody. It is composed of a Segway RMP 50 Omni mobile base, 1-DoF vertical linear actuator, and a pair of 7-DoF Meka Arms with series elastic actuators. It also has "equilibrium point controllers" (EPC) which vastly simplif...
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Biomimetics: Climbing Robots Use Whegs
Researchers at the Biologically Inspired Robotics Lab or the Biomimetics Lab, developed the Whegs series. Case Western Reserve University used both wheels and legs to create Whegs robots, mini-Whegs, and climbing mini-Whegs. The robots move freely at a relatively high speed and climb over obstacl...
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Unnamed Humanoid “UH” from Iowa State Learns To Learn
Iowa State University’s Developmental Robotics Lab is trying to find it out how the robot works in the same way like a 2 year old does by attempting to break the stuff. They used an unnamed humanoid (“uh”) to do this experiment. The unnamed humanoid maneuvers objects in many different ways ...