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July 26, 2013 10:10 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4BT7cbK57sg/story01.htm
Acrobatic robot with parkourmoves
The University of Pennsylvania's RHex robot is an all-terrain walker that has been in development for a decade. The robot's inventors have been programming obstacle-traversing strategies derived from parkour, getting it to do "double jumps, flips, and, through a combination of moves, even pull-ups:"For the tallest obstacles, the robot can launch itself vertically, hook its front legs on the edge of the object it's trying to surmount, then drag its body up and over.
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Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4BT7cbK57sg/story01.htm
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