In the past few years, we have covered plenty of fancy robot dogs with high-end components. The MEVIUS is a quadruped robot made with metal parts ordered through e-commerce. As the researchers explain, they used:
metal machining, sheet metal welding, and off-the-shelf components only
to pull this off. With reinforcement learning and Sim2Real, this robot can navigate rough terrains. This ROS robot is ready for indoor and outdoor experiments.
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