Efforts to make robots emulate humans have ignored an important fact: whenever humans approach their limits, they augment their capabilities with a diverse variety of assistive tools. Perhaps the most useful tool is the walking staff, which improves support, enables load redistribution and can also be used as a sensor to probe the stability of planned footsteps. - Shuyun Chung, a postdoc working with Oussama Khatib in the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence lab.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:00:01 +0000
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