Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin (UTexas) decided to give that level of functionality to robots. Team leader Luis Sentis and his students from the school’s Human Centered Robotics Laboratory developed a brand-new means of bringing a human sense of balance to a bipedal robot named after the swift messenger god of the ancient Greeks.
They believe their new method can be used to improve walking robots that are now being tested and used in all kinds of roles. Military units, search-and-rescue machines, and the like will one day be able to tread as carefully as the humans they are looking for...read more>>>...
