Robot dog runs a marathon on a single battery charge
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THE AI ANGLE
Reinforcing movement rulesResearchers built a four-legged robot named RAIBO2 that completed a marathon on a single battery charge. The robot combined lightweight legs, optimized motor-driving circuits, and machine learning to reduce energy loss. This design achieves a lower cost of transport than humans and travels three times farther than existing robots per charge.
THE TEACHING ANGLE
How do we balance hardware weight reductions and software movement rules to lower the energy cost of transport in legged systems?Read the original at techxplore.com Generate teaching or study materials
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