RunBot, bipedal robot, Computational Neuroscience Group, University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Designer - Computational Neuroscience Group

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RunBot on Wikipedia

Team:

Nikolai Bernstein

Tao Geng

Bernd Porr

Florentin Worgotter

Poramate Manoonpong

 

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2 Legged RunBot breaking records

Uploaded on Apr 5, 2006

"A two-legged robot that walks at record-breaking speed has been developed by researchers from Germany and Scotland.

"RunBot" is the fastest robot on two legs -- for its size. At 30 centimetres high, it can walk at a speedy 3.5 leg-lengths per second. This beats the previous record holder -- MIT's "Spring Flamingo" -- which is four times as tall but manages just 1.4 leg-lengths per second.

The robot is controlled by a simple program that mimics the way neurons control reflexes in humans and other animals. Unlike most other two-legged robots, RunBot has few sensors and can detect just two things -- when a foot touches the ground, and when a leg swings forward."

This video is of RunBot learning to run.

 

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Robot keeps marching with multi-level control

Uploaded on Jul 12, 2007

The 23-cm-tall robot, called Runbot, adapts to unfamiliar terrain in an instinctive way - exploiting the process thought to explain the way animals control locomotion - has been developed by European researchers