Miscellaneous

This is a video of a trial run of the one legged robot I am working on. In this run the robot runs up a 5deg slope (the plank) and recovers from a 70mm drop. The robot has only one electric motor and no knowledge of the environment. This research was performed at the National Technical University of Athens

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A one-legged robot that can stand, run and keep its balance on sloping or unsteady surfaces could offer a cheaper route to bipedal bots and self-balancing exoskeletons.

Researchers at the Toyota Technological Institute (TTI) in Nagoya, Japan, built their cut-price robot, dubbed TTI Hopper, using simple motors and gears for less than a thousand dollars, then created an algorithm that compensates for the limited capabilities of these components.

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