Understanding the ecosystem of robots is quite overwhelming, there are war robots, industrial robots, and humanoid robots, then there are cute-looking adorable dog robots that we can keep as pets in our homes, the most terrifying aspect of robots is the emergence of creepy-looking small robots. Now this robot can truly terrify you!
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon University have developed an affordable, small-legged robot can climb and descend stairs of any height, basically, it can go anywhere! The small four-legged robot can also navigate rocky, slippery, steep, and varied terrain, walk across gaps, scale rocks and curbs, and even operate in the dark. While developing, the team made the robot walk through its paces by asking it to climb a given number of steps that would be comparable to a person leaping over a hurdle, challenging it to walk through certain steppingstones. Besides, the robot can also walk on slippery surfaces and hillsides in public parks.
In a similar, the researchers used almost 4,000 identical copies of the robot to train it to walk and climb over difficult terrain. The machine acquired six years of training in a single day because of the simulator’s quickness. The simulator also acquired motor abilities during training and stored them in a neural network for the robot to have access to. This is quite a newer approach as compared to the traditional approach that required manual engineering of the robot’s movements. In a nutshell, this robot might look intensely creepy but showcases intense developments in the robotics industry.
