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Hyundai Made a Highly Manoeuvrable, Drink-Serving, Baby-Carrying Robot
The most common approach to designing robots capable of handling any terrain is to copy Mother Nature’s designs, as Boston Dynamics did with its Spot quadruped. But humans have come up with some clever ideas for getting around too — like the wheel. So, Hyundai is using a hybrid approach for a new robot platform that…
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This Robot Performs Amazing Jumps and Flips by Swinging Its Cyber-Penis Around
When you’re designing a robot to emulate the moves of an agile animal that can leap across gaps and carefully tip-toe across uneven terrain, it only makes sense to copy Mother Nature’s designs. It’s why you often see robots with tails, which help improve balance and agility. But staring at Tencent Robotics’ Ollie, I confess…
