The CHEETAH robot takes a fall at the DARPA Robotics Competition
June 5, 2015
MIT Cheetah: New Design Paradigm Shift toward Mobile Robots
Published on Nov 17, 2015
Recent technological advances in legged robots are opening up a new era of mobile robotics. In particular, legged robots have a great potential to help disaster situations or elderly care services. Whereas manufacturing robots are designed for maximum stiffness, allowing for accurate and rapid position tracking without contact, mobile robots have a different set of hardware/software design requirements including dynamic physical interactions with environments. Events such as the Fukushima power plant explosion highlight the need for robots that can traverse various terrains and perform dynamic physical tasks in unpredictable environments, where robots need to possess compliance that allows for impact mitigation as well as high force capability.
The talk will discuss the new mobile robot design paradigm focusing on the actuator characteristics and the impulse planning algorithms. As a successful embodiment of such paradigm, the talk will introduce the constituent technologies of the MIT Cheetah. Currently, the MIT cheetah is capable of running up to 13 mph with an efficiency rivaling animals, and capable of jumping over an 18 inch-high obstacle autonomously.
Sangbae Kim
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT's Cheetah II Robot Now Has Alexa Voice Control
Published on Mar 21, 2017
MIT's Cheetah II Robot showed off integration with Amazon Alexa voice technology at the MARS conference. The Cheetah II can now have a conversation with and be told what to do.
Vision-free MIT Cheetah
Published on Jul 5, 2018
MIT's Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris, and quickly recover its balance when suddenly yanked or shoved, all while essentially blind.
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Backflipping MIT Mini Cheetah
Published on Feb 28, 2019
MIT'S new mini cheetah robot is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip. At only 20 pounds the limber quadruped can bend and swing its legs wide, enabling it to walk either right side up or upside down. The robot can also trot over uneven terrain about twice as fast as an average person's walking speed.
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