Biped robot Schaft is gravity on the stairs. Loader time to look for a new occupation

In a series of two-legged robots replenishment. His latest development Show Schaft, one of the eight companies under the wing robotehnicheskih Alphabet / Google X. Research Center

Schaft - small stocky robot about a meter in height (retracted), is very stable and able to drag loads up to 60 kg over rough terrain. Its presentation took place three days ago at an economic conference NEST 2016 in Tokyo.

Company Schaft takes origins in JSK Robotics Laboratory, University of Tokyo. It is best known for winning the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials in 2013, the competition with an overwhelming advantage over its competitors. She then permanently disappeared from the attention, not showing their developments. Until now.



Robot raises and lowers the center of gravity. In the demonstration video shows how quickly restores the balance, if the enemy slips under foot round pipe. This is a useful feature when hiking over rough terrain. For example, Schaft able to pull in the campaign for the owner of a heavy backpack, like a mule (until the end of battery power). It moves at a fairly deep snow and Large Marine pebbles, where the man is difficult to resist.



In the video, there is an interesting point (1:36) where the robot cleans the surface by a rotating brush. That is, it can still be used as a cleaner.

Schaft representatives stressed that while not talking about the presentation of the product, this is just a demonstration of this progress. But the Japanese still achieving very impressive.

By the way, the name of the Schaft, probably comes from the old Japanese anime 80s «Patlabor: Mobile Police", there was robotehnicheskaya Corporation Schaft Enterprises, which produced a police robot.



However, the current small creature does not look like an armed anime character. While ...





Source: geektimes.ru/post/274126/