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Jonas Frey, Matías Mattamala, Hae-Won Park, Mayank Mittal + 4 more
Humanoid and quadrupedal robots have the potential to revolutionize the way we work, interact, and coexist with intelligent machines. To understand their effects on society and how they can enable scientific discovery, we assess the current capabilities of these systems along hardware, locomotion, autonomy, data, and…
Junhui Zhang, Jinyuan Liu, Huaizhi Zong, Pengyuan Ji + 4 more
'Yong Li' 'Huayong Yang' 'Bing Xu'] Motivated by the agility of animal and human locomotion, highly dynamic bionic legged robots have been extensively applied across various domains. Legged robotics represents a multidisciplinary field that integrates manufacturing, materials science, electronics, and biology, and…
Ahmad Ghanbari, Mahdieh Babaiasl, Ako Veisinejad
Ants are six-legged insects that can carry loads ten times heavier than their body weight. Since having six-legs, they are intrinsically stable. They are powerful and can carry heavy loads. For these reasons, in this paper a new parallel kinematic structure is proposed for a six-legged ant robot. The mechanical…
Tadeusz Mikolajczyk, Emilia Mikołajewska, Hayder F. N. Al-Shuka, Tomasz Malinowski + 9 more
'Tomasz Malinowski' 'Adam Kłodowski' 'Danil Yurievich Pimenov' 'Tomasz Paczkowski' 'Fuwen Hu' 'Khaled Giasin' 'Dariusz Mikołajewski' 'Marek Macko' 'Abolfazl Zaraki' 'Hamed Rahimi Nohooji'] Currently, there is an intensive development of bipedal walking robots. The most known solutions are based on the use of the…
Jorge De León, Raúl Cebolla, Antonio Barrientos
In this work the authors present a novel algorithm for estimating the odometry of “C” legged robots with compliant legs and an analysis to estimate the pose of the robot. Robots with “C” legs are an alternative to wheeled and tracked robots for overcoming obstacles that can be found in different scenarios like stairs…
Clarus A. Goldsmith, Moritz Haustein, Ansgar Büschges, Nicholas S. Szczecinski
For decades, the field of biologically inspired robotics has leveraged insights from animal locomotion to improve the walking ability of legged robots. Recently, “biomimetic” robots have been developed to model how specific animals walk. By prioritizing biological accuracy to the target organism rather than the…
Yifeng Gong, Ge Sun, Aditya Nair, Aditya Bidwai + 4 more
Legged robots can have a unique role in manipulating objects in dynamic, human-centric, or otherwise inaccessible environments. Although most legged robotics research to date typically focuses on traversing these challenging environments, many legged platform demonstrations have also included "moving an object" as a…
Yilun Sun, Chujun Zong, Felix Pancheri, Tong Chen + 1 more
Robotic legs are an important component of the quadruped robot for achieving different motion gaits. Although the conventional rigid-link-based legs can generally perform robust motions, they still have the issues with poor sealing when operating in complex and liquid terrains. To cope with this problem, fully…
Jiawang Ma, Guanlin Qiu, Weichen Guo, Peitong Li + 3 more
'Zhangguo Yu' 'Marco Ceccarelli'] An important feature of a legged robot is its dynamic motion performance. Traditional methods often improve the dynamic motion performance by reducing the moment of inertia of robot legs or by adopting quasi-direct drive actuators. This paper proposes a method to enhance the dynamic…
Alexander Badri–Spröwitz, Alexandre Tuleu, Mostafa Ajallooeian, Massimo Vespignani + 8 more
Alexander Sprowitz ¨ 1,2,∗ , Alexandre Tuleu 1 , Mostafa Ajallooeian 1 , Massimo Vespignani 1 , Rico Mockel ¨ 1,3 , Peter Eckert 1 , Michiel D'Haene 4 , Jonas Degrave 4 , Arne Nordmann 5 , Benjamin Schrauwen 4 , Jochen Steil 5 , and Auke Jan Ijspeert 1
Tønnes F. Nygaard, Charles Martín, Jim Tørresen, Kyrre Glette
— If robots are to become ubiquitous, they will need to be able to adapt to complex and dynamic environments. Robots that can adapt their bodies while deployed might be flexible and robust enough to meet this challenge. Previous work on dynamic robot morphology has focused on simulation, combining simple modules, or…
Yaguang Zhu, Bo Jin, Yongsheng Wu, Tong Guo + 2 more
'Vittorio M. N. Passaro'] Aimed at solving the misplaced body trajectory problem caused by the rolling of semi-round rigid feet when a robot is walking, a legged kinematic trajectory correction methodology based on the Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM) is proposed. The concept of ideal foothold is put…
Joseph W. Barter, Henry H. Yin
Terrestrial locomotion presents tremendous computational challenges on account of the enormous degrees of freedom in legged animals, and the complex and unpredictable properties of the natural environment and the effectors. Yet the nervous system can achieve locomotion with ease. Here we introduce a quadrupedal robot…
Abhishek Chatterjee, An Mo, Bernadett Kiss, Emre Cemal Gonen + 1 more
'Alexander Badri–Spröwitz'] Abstract— Most legged robots are built with leg structures from serially mounted links and actuators and are controlled through complex controllers and sensor feedback. In comparison, animals developed multi-segment legs, mechanical coupling between joints, and multi-segmented feet. They run…
Yordan Tsvetkov, Parvez Alam
This paper is concerned with the design, manufacture and validation of ‘Poka’, a novel millimetre-scale necro-robot aimed at bridging the performance gap between miniature robots and insects. To create Poka, we use the exoskeleton of a deceased five-horned rhinoceros beetle (Eupatorus gracilicornis) as a mechanical…
Leo Foulds, Donan Satria Yudha, Parvez Alam
In this paper,we consider the feasibility of mimicking the sprawling gait of a live varanid (Varanus salvator) using a necrobot (named: Pak Biawak), a robot constructed using the skeletal parts of a deceased varanid of the same species. Pak Biawak is manufactured using simple joints and components, and limb motion is…
Pawel Kudzia, Stephen N. Robinovich, J. Maxwell Donelan
Our legs act as our primary contact with the surrounding environment, generating external forces that enable agile motion. To be agile, the nervous system has to control both the magnitude of the force that the feet apply to the ground and the point of application of this force. The purpose of this study was to…
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Process chemistry creates scalable routes for new lead molecules and is a crucial but laborious stage in pharmaceutical and agrochemical development cycles. We have built an automated process chemistry platform that tackles late-stage process development. The modular workflow integrates both industry-standard tools and…
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Despite the promise of self-driving laboratories to accelerate discovery, their widespread implementation is hindered by prohibitive cost and technical complexity. We introduce BrickSDLab, a fully functional self-driving lab platform built entirely from LEGO® components, designed to bridge this accessibility gap.…
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This comprehensive review examines the evolution of autonomous materials synthesis laboratories that integrate artificial intelligence with advanced robotics to accelerate discovery. Traditional materials development pipelines typically require 10-20 years, but self-driving laboratories (SDLs) and Materials…
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The emergence of affordable and reliable 3D printers has enabled laboratories to optimize setups, print custom parts, accelerate research, and rapidly prototype. A new movement has emerged in the past decade, where 3D printers are repurposed as laboratory-specific robots. There are three distinct approaches in the…