This feisty little guy is a quadruped robot called SQ1. It's a project by South Korean company SimLab, whom we met at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems last month. Their RoboticsLab simulation software is being used to figure out how to get the quadruped to walk without actually, you know, having to risk a trial-and-error approach on a real robot. And it works! Or rather, it mostly works:
We don't know too much about it, but apparently, there's a much larger (think BigDog/AlphaDog sized) quadruped in existence (sponsored by the South Korean government). This smaller robot is being used to test out different gaits that have proven themselves in simulation, before the full-sized (and more expensive) version tries not to fall over on its own.
[ RoboticsLab ]
