{"id":147648,"date":"2022-10-06T11:23:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/ihmcs-nadia-is-a-versatile-humanoid-teammate"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:23:45","slug":"ihmcs-nadia-is-a-versatile-humanoid-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/ihmcs-nadia-is-a-versatile-humanoid-teammate","title":{"rendered":"IHMC\u2019s Nadia is a Versatile Humanoid Teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ihmcs-nadia-is-a-versatile-humanoid-teammate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robots.ihmc.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">The Florida Institute for Human &amp; Machine Cognition (IHMC)<\/a> is well known in bipedal robotics circles for teaching very complex humanoid robots to walk. Since 2015, IHMC has been home to a <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/atlas-drc-robot-is-75-percent-new-completely-unplugged\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Boston Dynamics Atlas (the DRC version)<\/a> as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/update-nasa-valkyrie-robot\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">NASA Valkyrie<\/a>, and significant progress has been made on advancing these platforms toward reliable mobility and manipulation. But fundamentally, we\u2019re talking about some very old hardware here. And there just aren\u2019t a lot of good replacement options (available to researchers, anyway) when it comes to humanoids with human-comparable strength, speed, and flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, IHMC decided that it was high time to build their own robot from scratch, and in 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/ihmc-developing-new-gymnastinspired-humanoid-robot\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">we saw some very cool plastic concepts of Nadia <\/a>\u2014a humanoid designed from the ground up to perform useful tasks at human speed in human environments. After 16 (!) experimental plastic versions, <a href=\"http:\/\/robots.ihmc.us\/nadia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Nadia is now a real robot<\/a>, and it already looks pretty impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Institute for Human &amp; Machine Cognition (IHMC) is well known in bipedal robotics circles for teaching very complex humanoid robots to walk. Since 2015, IHMC has been home to a Boston Dynamics Atlas (the DRC version) as well as a NASA Valkyrie, and significant progress has been made on advancing these platforms toward [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147648","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}