{"id":162379,"date":"2023-04-17T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T03:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/team-designs-four-legged-robotic-system-that-can-walk-a-balance-beam"},"modified":"2023-04-17T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T03:25:06","slug":"team-designs-four-legged-robotic-system-that-can-walk-a-balance-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/team-designs-four-legged-robotic-system-that-can-walk-a-balance-beam","title":{"rendered":"Team designs four-legged robotic system that can walk a balance beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WvzJlskPRhw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Robotics Institute (RI) have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam\u2014a feat that is likely the first of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis experiment was huge,\u201d said Zachary Manchester, an assistant professor in the RI and head of the Robotic Exploration Lab. \u201cI don\u2019t think anyone has ever successfully done balance beam walking with a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/robot\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">robot<\/a> before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To the team\u2019s knowledge, this is the first instance of a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/quadruped\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quadruped<\/a> successfully walking on a narrow balance beam. Their paper, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/roboticexplorationlab.org\/papers\/reaction_wheel.pdf\">Enhanced Balance for Legged Robots Using Reaction Wheels<\/a>,\u201d was accepted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icra2023.org\/\">2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation<\/a>. The annual conference will be held May 29\u2013June 2, in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Robotics Institute (RI) have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam\u2014a feat that is likely the first of its kind. \u201cThis experiment was huge,\u201d said Zachary Manchester, an assistant professor in the RI and head of the Robotic Exploration Lab. [\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-162379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162379","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=162379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}