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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Demonstrate Biologically Inspired Robots At NSF Meeting
Event Highlights Findings of Global Study on Robotics
The purpose of the event is to highlight U.S.-funded robotics research and the findings of a new study, The World Technology Evaluation Center International Study of Robotics, a two-year look at robotics R&D in the U.S., Japan, Korea and Western Europe. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation, NASA and the National Institutes of Health.
Rizzi and Skaff are part of a collaboration that will demonstrate four biologically inspired robots, including Robots in Scansorial Environments (RiSE).
The goal of the RiSE project, funded by the DARPA Biodynotics Program, is to create a bioinspired climbing robot with the unique ability to walk on land and climb on vertical surfaces. Researchers are studying novel robot kinematics, precision-manufactured compliant feet and appendages, and advanced robot behaviors.
Carnegie Mellon researchers are working closely with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, Lewis & Clark University and Boston Dynamics Inc., on the RiSE project, which focuses on developing behaviors to autonomously walk and climb on multiple surfaces, adapting gaits based upon sensory information and reacting to surface changes and obstacles.
For more on Rizzi's work see: http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/rizzi_alfred.html
For more information about the event, including a link to a Webcast, see: http://www.nsf.gov/news/newsmedia/robotics05/index.jsp
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