{"id":88571,"date":"2019-03-11T17:03:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T00:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/a-robotic-leg-born-without-prior-knowledge-learns-to-walk"},"modified":"2019-03-11T17:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T00:03:35","slug":"a-robotic-leg-born-without-prior-knowledge-learns-to-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/a-robotic-leg-born-without-prior-knowledge-learns-to-walk","title":{"rendered":"A robotic leg, born without prior knowledge, learns to walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-robotic-leg-born-without-prior-knowledge-learns-to-walk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a newborn giraffe or wildebeest, being born can be a perilous introduction to the world\u2014predators lie in wait for an opportunity to make a meal of the herd\u2019s weakest member. This is why many species have evolved ways for their juveniles to find their footing within minutes of birth.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an astonishing evolutionary feat that has long inspired biologists and roboticists\u2014and now a team of USC researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering believe they have become the first to create an AI-controlled robotic limb driven by animal-like tendons that can even be tripped up and then recover within the time of the next footfall, a task for which the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/robot\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">robot<\/a> was never explicitly programmed to do.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas, a professor of Biomedical Engineering a professor of Biokinesiology &amp; Physical Therapy at USC in a project with USC Viterbi School of Engineering doctoral student Ali Marjaninejad and two other doctoral students\u2014Dario Urbina-Melendez and Brian Cohn, have developed a bio-inspired algorithm that can learn a new walking task by itself after only 5 minutes of unstructured play, and then adapt to other tasks without any additional programming.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019-03-robotic-leg-born-prior-knowledge.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019&#45;03-robotic-leg-born-prior-knowledge.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a newborn giraffe or wildebeest, being born can be a perilous introduction to the world\u2014predators lie in wait for an opportunity to make a meal of the herd\u2019s weakest member. This is why many species have evolved ways for their juveniles to find their footing within minutes of birth. It\u2019s an astonishing evolutionary feat [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88571","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=88571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}