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It’s hard to know where to start this week. Any temporary slowdown we might have experienced over the holidays has been wiped away. Once again, we find ourselves knee deep in robotics news, like the trash compactor scene in A New Hope — only without the closing walls, Death Star and weird little one-eyed monster. […]
Robot dog that can hike peaks in the Swiss Alps unaided could be used on other planets
ETH Zurich researchers have developed a new control approach enabling a legged robot, called ANYmal, to move quickly and robustly over difficult terrain.
It’s been pretty astonishing to see what robotics researchers have been able to accomplish with legged robots over the past few years. Oregon State University taking Cassie for a 5K back in July springs to mind. This week researchers at ETH Zurich announced that they were stretching their own ANYmal robot’s physical capabilities in similar […]