ATRIAS 2.1, walking bipedal robot, Dynamic Robotics Laboratory, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

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ATRIAS Robot: Sidestepping

Published on Mar 2, 2015

ATRIAS practices sidestepping around the lab.

 

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ATRIAS robot: gets kicked

Published on Mar 4, 2015

Oregon State University's bipedal robot, ATRIAS, takes some kicks.

 

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ATRIAS Robot: Learning to Walk

Published on Mar 5, 2015

A short montage teaching ATRIAS to walk on its training boom. This controller uses a "virtual pivot point" method to stabilize the robot while walking quickly.

 

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ATRIAS Robot: Fail Friday - "Mystery Fail #2"

Published on Mar 6, 2015

ATRIAS experiences an unspecified failure. Watch and see.

 

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ATRIAS Robot: Steps Around on Uneven Ground while Blind

Published on Mar 9, 2015

Oregon State University's bipedal robot, ATRIAS, is commanded to move over obstacles that it can't see. It's (mostly) successful.

 

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ATRIAS Robot: Dodgeball Barrage

Published on Mar 12, 2015

Oregon State University's bipedal robot, ATRIAS, endures a new kind of perturbation... being pelted with dodgeballs. How will ATRIAS fare?

 

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ATRIAS Robot: Fail Friday - Obstacle Trauma

Published on Mar 13, 2015

ATRIAS relives a past Fail Friday. Kinda chickens out.

 

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First-of-its-kind robot modeled after birds

Published on Mar 14, 2015

Researchers at Oregon State University have built a robot that is modeled after birds. They say it can eventually be used in natural disaster relief efforts and prosthetic limb technology

 

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ATRIAS Robot: First Walk

Published on Mar 16, 2015

ATRIAS now has onboard power, wireless coms, and is performing its first dynamic walk.

 

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ATRIAS Robot: Walking - Picking Up Speed

Published on Mar 18, 2015

ATRIAS walks down its runway repeatedly, attempting faster and faster speeds.

 

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ATRIAS Robot: Fail Friday - Double Jeopardy

Published on Mar 20, 2015

To protect the machine during testing, ATRIAS' breakaway pins are designed to fail at low forces. Perhaps too low?

 

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ATRIAS Robot: 5-kph Walking

Published on Mar 23, 2015

ATRIAS' walking control is getting faster. This run was clocked at 5 kph, but it's still got further to go.

 

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ATRIAS Robot: Practicing Stop, Go, and Reverse

Published on Mar 25, 2015

Some footage of researchers tuning ATRIAS' controller while it's being commanded to walk, stop, and reverse direction.

 

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ATRIAS Robot: Fail Friday - "Desperate Measures"

Published on Mar 27, 2015

In this week's failure, we have to hand it to ATRIAS. It really tries hard to make it out of this one.

 

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ATRIAS Robot - Battery Drain

Published on Apr 1, 2015

Oregon State University researchers test how long ATRIAS lasts on its 6.6-lb battery pack (a small energy source for a human-scale robot).

 

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ATRIAS Robot - Game Controller Tutorial

Published on Apr 3, 2015

Oregon State University researchers control the bipedal robot, ATRIAS, with a game controller. Other shenanigans happen as well.

 

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ATRIAS Robot: Fail Friday - "Perturbation Escalation"

Published on Apr 3, 2015

The Dynamic Robotics Lab never seems satisfied with the size of their robot perturbations... a worrying compulsion for our friend, ATRIAS.

 

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ATRIAS Robot: Tackles an Obstacle Course

Published on Apr 9, 2015

The bipedal robot, ATRIAS, takes on an the obstacle course. This course make look familiar to you ATRIAS fans ( youtu.be/v21AGDZdxfo ), but this time, there's no planarizing boom.

 

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ATRIAS Robot: Fail Friday - "The Kitchen Sink"

Published on Apr 10, 2015

ATRIAS didn't sign up for this.

 

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ATRIAS Robot: Efficient and Quieter Balancing

Published on Apr 14, 2015

ATRIAS tries out its new "quiet" balancing mode and sees how long this new controller extends its battery life.