{"id":178512,"date":"2023-12-17T12:28:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T18:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/eth-zurichs-advanced-anymal-robot-can-operate-with-a-198-lbs-payload"},"modified":"2023-12-17T12:28:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T18:28:23","slug":"eth-zurichs-advanced-anymal-robot-can-operate-with-a-198-lbs-payload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/eth-zurichs-advanced-anymal-robot-can-operate-with-a-198-lbs-payload","title":{"rendered":"ETH Zurich\u2019s advanced ANYmal robot can operate with a 198 lbs payload"},"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\/DkhbepqrOf0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Barry\u2019s prowess is evident in tests, boasting a maximum payload-to-weight ratio of 2 on flat terrain.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Aiming to solve the challenge of legged robots still being \u201cweak, slow, inefficient, or fragile to take over tasks that involve heavy payloads,\u201d a team of researchers from the Robotic Systems Lab at ETH Zurich has developed a promising proposition.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Barry, a dynamically balancing <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/culture\/robot-dogs-ai-inspectors-us-border\" title=\"quadruped robot\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">quadruped robot<\/a> optimized for high payload capabilities and efficiency, which promises to help humans tackle challenging manual work scenarios. The quadruple\u2019s new leg design ensures that it can \u201chandle unmodeled payloads up to 198 pounds (90 kilograms) while operating at high efficiency,\u201d according to a study by the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry\u2019s prowess is evident in tests, boasting a maximum payload-to-weight ratio of 2 on flat terrain. Aiming to solve the challenge of legged robots still being \u201cweak, slow, inefficient, or fragile to take over tasks that involve heavy payloads,\u201d a team of researchers from the Robotic Systems Lab at ETH Zurich has developed a promising [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178512","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}