Teaching Robots to Walk Like Humans (VIDEO)
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NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering's Joo H. Kim earned the ASME Freudenstein / General Motors Young Investigator Award for developing a highly accurate way to measure and analyze robots' expenditure of energy. Here, Professor Kim and fellow researchers plot the energy expended by a commercially available biped robot DARwIn-OP robot against the naturally efficient gait of the average human. Charts illustrate not just the total energy expenditure, but at specific joints and the energetic cost of transport.
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