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Here is a clip showing a 60kg robot getting back onto it’s two feet, very much like a human would. R Daneel, a name taken from a robot character in some of the Asimov sci-fi books, relies more on momentum through a certain trajectory, rather than constant control to achieve it’s tasks - much like the way we do things.

“The main idea behind the design of the robot is the exploitation of body dynamics”, says Max Lungarella, who works at the lab where R Daneel was developed, at University of Tokyo in Japan.

“All kinds of tasks - particularly dynamics-based ones - can be addressed with our framework. We are currently looking at jumping, rolling, walking, trotting, swinging, reaching and grasping.”

Cool.

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