Quadruped walking robot developed by Chinese startup that continues to move forward without even kicking "Laikago"

Boston · dynamics "BigDog" is famous as a phenomenal quadruped walking robot that can continue to progress faintly without falling down even if it gets an intense kick. Robot development is prosperous all over the world, it seems that as soon as it catches up with Boston Dynamics, startup is born in China, and it is honing robot technology.

Unitree-Laikago
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This Robotics Startup Wants to Be the Boston Dynamics of China - IEEE Spectrum
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/this-robotics-startup-wants-to-be-the-boston-dynamics-of-china

Robot under development by China's robot development startup Unitree Robotics "Laikago"It realizes the stability of the Boston dynamics beam can be confirmed in the following movie.

Laikago: a four leg robot is coming to you - YouTube


This is a quadruped walking robot "Laikago" developed by Unitree Robotics. Boston Dynamics'BigDog"Or"SpotIt is a 4-legged robot designed to remind you.


Laikago to step forward while taking light steps.


I will climb up the slope without stone.


Change direction and go down. Even with an inclination of 20 degrees, I went down without falling.


Advance in the grassy Laikago. It is quite creepy.


In the stability test you can enter the classic "kick" ... ...


I immediately prepared my posture.


Laikago keeps enduring persistent kicks.



With an intense kick ......


Collapse from the knees ......


not. It is a kick that one knee reaches the ground, but I got up soon and walked out as if nothing had happened.


Laikago walking with an upside-down PET bottle on his back, under a sitting man.


As a man takes a plastic bottle, while stepping on foot,


I walk out again without killing PET bottles put upside down again. We show outstanding posture control technology.


Not only stability but also power. Pulls a carry case that a person took. In addition, Laikago is controlled by Wi-Fi and can not move autonomously.


From the state where the feet are folded ......


It starts up slowly with power on.


It carries 12 motors and can take various postures.



It seems that the range of motion of feet is also wide.


To test posture control, put Laikago on the table and shake the platform gently ...


The back always maintains a horizontal state. It's almost like an electric gimbal stability.


At the beginning of development it was Laikago, which we did not advance ahead of time with the balance on a road full of pebbles, but eventually it has evolved to a level where it can go on smoothly on a pebble.


In addition, Laikago can fit in the carry case that appeared in the movie as it folds up.


Robot engineer Shin Wan who developed Laikago, Unitree Robotics, acknowledges that he is making a robot with admiration for Boston Dynamics robots. At the time of article creation, autonomy by AI has not been realized, but it is a specification controlled by Wi-Fi, "If you further miniaturize and simplify Laikago you can help with humans with baggage I will tell you about the direction of Laikago. Unitree Robotics is planning to market Laikago with further improved performance, and it seems that the price is assumed to be 20,000 dollars (about 2.1 million yen) to 30,000 dollars (about 3.2 million yen).