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In Italy A Quadruped Robot Takes First Steps
forbes.com 2 weeks, 1 day agoResearchers in the Department of Advanced Robotics (ADVR) at the Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa took their Hydraulic Quadruped (HyQ) robot out of the lab for some real world simulations on a 20 meter track. The 70 kilogram, one meter long, aluminum quadruped might not look like much, but it can run, jump ...
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HyQ Is The Latest All-terrain Quadruped Bot, Tells Big Dog To Bring It On
engadget.com 2 weeks, 2 days agoYou might not know this, but you can literally never have enough all-terrain quadrupedal robots... at least according to us (John Connor might disagree). So, while HyQ from the Italian Institute of Technology might bear more than a passing resemblance to Boston Dynamic's Big Dog , we won't hold it against the creators. The Hydraulic Quadruped robot (HyQ for short) was first dreamed up in 2008, but the project is only now coming into its own. Researchers at IIT took the bot for a stroll outside of the confin


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