Google's "Schaft" acquired in Japan unveiled a biped walking robot outstanding stability with unique structure without knees



A Japanese company that develops and develops a humanoid robot that was established independently by the University of Tokyo's Information Science and Technology Department · Information System Engineering Laboratory (JSK) in 2012 and acquired by Google in November 2013SCHAFT"Was held in Japan on April 8, 2016New Economic Summit 2016(NEST 2016) has released a biped walking robot under development. The bipedal walking robot that SCHAFT had developed in the past is a robot with a "knee" in human beings, but the robot demonstrated newly has no "knee" and its unique motion different from animals doing. Also, places with bad scaffolding and stairs are moving easily, and its outstanding stability is a word of surprise.

This is a biped walking robot that SCHAFT is newly developing. Although the name is not yet a prototype, it is expected to be used for carrying heavy objects.


You can check how the robot actually moves from the following movie.

Google owned Schaft unveils new bipedal robot - YouTube


A bipedal walking robot under development by the company with Mr. Yuhei Nakanishi of SCHAFT who appeared in NEST 2016 entered the stage. The robot has appeared on the stage while walking with Tech Tec and will shoot pictures with Pasha Pasha in the hall.


And a movie to show off the performance of the robot flows. First of all footage moving football stadium.


There are many stairs in the stadium, but it does not seem to make them a problem at all.



Robots do not have "knees" as people say. Instead, the base of the leg and torso slides up and down and is made possible by moving the leg up and down.



There is something pretty somewhere pretty somewhere that walking step by step, with one leg standing and moving the other leg forward and landing it.


Walking crabs when moving sideways.


Petalipetari on the lawn.


Then I moved with a weight of 60 kg. It has carrying performance that can also carry heavy objects.


Furthermore, the following movie contains a state that the robot does not collapse even if stepping on an iron pipe.


At the moment when one feet stands, I try to steer the iron pipe and let the robot fall down ... ...


The robot balances skillful steps and prevents falls.


Then move on a narrow environment.


You can move easily even in the same space as the width of the robot.


Furthermore, it seems that we are cleaning the steps of the stairs with the vacuum cleaner function on the feet. It is possible to clean the stairs which is difficult with a robot vacuum cleaner such as rumba.


Next, it seems that we are testing the mobility abilities other than human living environment. The mountain road that came first.


The mountain road is much harder to walk than on the concrete, as the ground slides, is soft and unstable, but it also shows outstanding stability feeling even there.



It was along the coast that I came following.


The ground on which many small stones overlap, the overlapping stones and stones are misaligned each time they step on the ground, but the feet slip, but they do not even do things.



The last is a walk test on a snowy mountain.


For those who are not familiar with walking, it is a very painful snow road, but the robot continues to walk without difficulty.



In the comment section of the movie, "When asked if it is possible to walk a robot with a bear of balance in recent years," as a big doubt, it is whether he can kick a robot, is not it? Break downtest"The body of the telescopic leg and the low center of gravity. Interesting" "It's incomplete because it can not even transform into a fighter plane." "Looks like a robot that appears in the 1970 Star Wars It was various to the opinion that.

In addition, the bipedal walking robot which SCHAFT had created before it was acquired by Google was as follows.

High-Power Robot Legs Can Jump, Balance - YouTube


Speaking of Google, we've been doing advanced robot developmentBoston · Dynamics sold outAlthough it is reported that it is a policy to do, it may be a sale that can be done because there is a hidden ball Schaft.

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