Here is a low cost robot dog that can climb stairs of its height and traverse rocky, slippery, and uneven terrain. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science and the University of California, Berkeley, designed a system that enables small legged robots to overcome challenging conditions.
This robot uses vision as input to output command to the motors of the robot. There is no mapping or planning involved in the process, which makes the robot quite adaptable.
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