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Self-stabilizing robots are reaching a fascinating stage where they can walk and balance with little to no AI, relyin... — @s_sapphire_robotics.
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Self-stabilizing robots are reaching a fascinating stage where they can walk and balance with little to no AI, relying instead on clever mechanical design and passive dynamics. Sometimes, stability can emerge from physics itself, where motion happens naturally without complex control systems, yet still looks surprisingly lifelike.
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Dude look.. it could be a recumbent bike!
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This is a running robot, and here it's going slow-mo. It's running 12 miles per hour on a treadmill. There is no sensors, no feedback control, no computer. It's just a motor with a throttle. And as you just squeeze the throttle, it runs faster, and you let off the throttle and it runs slower. And we came up with some really clever ideas on how to make this beam self-stabilize. So if the robot pitches forward, the pitch would just naturally correct itself. And so I think there's a lot of really cool things you can do like this to put intelligence in the mechanism. And you can make the argument that in biology, some animals like ostriches are doing something like this because their motion is so quick that the time it would take for something to be sensed and something to be reacted upon.