{"id":108761,"date":"2020-06-16T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/open-source-low-cost-quadruped-robot-makes-sophisticated-robotics-available-to-all"},"modified":"2020-06-16T15:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:03:10","slug":"open-source-low-cost-quadruped-robot-makes-sophisticated-robotics-available-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/open-source-low-cost-quadruped-robot-makes-sophisticated-robotics-available-to-all","title":{"rendered":"Open-source, low-cost, quadruped robot makes sophisticated robotics available to all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/open-source-low-cost-quadruped-robot-makes-sophisticated-robotics-available-to-all2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robots capable of the sophisticated motions that define advanced physical actions like walking, jumping, and navigating terrain can cost $50,000 or more, making real-world experimentation prohibitively expensive for many.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a collaborative team at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in T\u00fcbingen and Stuttgart, Germany, has designed a relatively low-cost, easy-and-fast-to-assemble quadruped robot called \u201cSolo 8\u201d that can be upgraded and modified, opening the door to sophisticated research and development to teams on limited budgets, including those at startups, smaller labs, or teaching institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers\u2019 work, \u201cAn Open Torque-Controlled Modular Robot Architecture for Legged Locomotion Research,\u201d accepted for publication in <i>Robotics and Automation Letters<\/i>, will be presented later this month at ICRA, the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, one of the world\u2019s leading robotic conferences, to be held virtually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots capable of the sophisticated motions that define advanced physical actions like walking, jumping, and navigating terrain can cost $50,000 or more, making real-world experimentation prohibitively expensive for many. Now, a collaborative team at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in T\u00fcbingen and Stuttgart, Germany, has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}