The commercial version of Boston Dynamics’ Spot isn’t designed for speed. So using reinforcement learning techniques, ...

This is a port of Arduino to the RP2040 (Raspberry Pi Pico processor) and RP2350 (Raspberry Pi Pico 2 processor). It uses the bare Raspberry Pi Pico SDK and a custom GCC 14.2/Newlib 4.3 toolchain and ...

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A Chinese team has unveiled a groundbreaking quadruped robot that is pushing the boundaries of robotics and speed. The Black Panther 2.0, developed by Zhejiang University’s humanoid innovation ...

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Abstract: This work reports a terrain perception and stiffness adaptive control scheme with no vision. This strategy can enable quadruped robots to operate in a stable posture in unstructured ...

This paper explores the applicability of bicycle-inspired balance control in a quadruped robot model. Bicycles maintain stability and change direction by intuitively steering the handle, which induces ...

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This isn’t the first time robots have hit the track in China. Last fall, Tiangong’s appearance at the Yizhuang Half Marathon and quadruped robots serving as pacesetters at the Hangzhou ...