Researchers from ETH Zurich’s Robotic Systems Lab have shown that a standard four-legged inspection robot can fully solve a giant Rubik’s Cube on its own, relying entirely on its feet for every contact with the puzzle. The machine, an ANYmal-D, first walks around the freestanding cube and tips it onto different faces so its onboard […]
Amirhossein Kazemipour, Hehui Zheng, and Robert Katzschmann of ETH Zurich’s Soft Robotics Lab began with a commercial WUJI right hand with five fingers designed for grabbing. They put a Raspberry Pi, an IMU, and a battery to its back, resulting in a package weighing 818 grams and operating without a cable. Twenty powered joints remained […]
Humanoid robots can now handle monkey bars. Researchers at ETH Zürich’s Robotic Systems Lab showed an EngineAI PM-01 leaping onto a sparse overhead ladder, swinging hand over hand from one thin rung to the next, and dropping cleanly to the floor in a single unbroken sequence. The work, titled Learning Agile Perceptive Traversal of Sparse […]