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SupraPeds improves the stability of humanoid robots while retaining manipulation capabilities.
To deploy humanoid robots in cluttered and unstructured environments such as disaster sites, it is necessary to develop advanced techniques in both locomotion and control. Researchers from Stanford University proposed to incorporate a pair of actuated smart staffs with vision and force sensing that transforms biped humanoids into tripeds or quadrupeds or more generally, SupraPeds. The concept of SuprePeds not only improves the stability of humanoid robots while traversing rough terrain but also retains the manipulation capabilities.
Credit: Oussama Khatib, Stanford University; Shuyun Chung, Stanford University
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