Group News
Robot dog learns to walk in one hour
- 18 July 2022
Virtual spinal cord is continuously optimized
Like a newborn animal, a four-legged robot stumbles around during its first walking attempts. But while a foal or a giraffe needs much longer to master walking, the robot learns to move forward fluently in just one hour. A computer program acts as the artificial presentation of the animal’s spinal cord, and learns to optimize the robot's movement in a short time. The artificial neural network is not yet ideally adjusted at the beginning, but rapidly self-adjusts. On July 18, the research work which is at the intersection of robotics and biology was published in the renowned journal Nature Machine Intelligence.
Learning plastic matching
- 18 July 2022
Learning plastic matching of robot dynamics in closed loop Central Pattern Generators at Nature Machine Intelligence
Felix Ruppert defends his PhD research
- 06 May 2022
Felix very successfully defended his PhD research.
Emre Cemal Goenen joins DLG
- 31 March 2022
We welcome Emre Cemal Goenen as new PhD candidate researcher at DLG.
BirdBot is energy-efficient thanks to nature as a model
- 16 March 2022
A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of California, Irvine constructed a robot leg that, like its natural model, is very energy efficient. BirdBot benefits from a foot-leg coupling through a network of muscles and tendons that extends across multiple joints. In this way, BirdBot needs fewer motors than previous legged robots and could, theoretically, scale to large size. On March 16th, the researchers will publish their work in Science Robotics.
Alexander Badri-Sprowitz Alborz Aghamaleki Sarvestani Metin Sitti
Abhishek Chatterjee joins DLG
- 01 March 2022
Abhishek Chatterjee joins as postdoc researcher. Welcome at DLG!
Bernadett Kiss joins DLG
- 15 March 2021
New group member
Bernadett Kiss becomes new Dynamic Locomotion Group member.
Four-legged robot makes research comparable worldwide
- 16 June 2020
Solo 8 is a new research robot, developed as an open-source project in the German cities of Tübingen and Stuttgart. The dog-resembling, torque-controlled quadruped is capable of very dynamic movements. It is made entirely of 3D printed parts and off-the-shelf components, which makes it an easy to replicate platform ideal for fundamental research in legged locomotion and robotic education. The project aims to provide robotic research labs around the world with an easy-to-assemble legged robot kit that doesn’t break the bank. Additionally, software on Solo 8 is constantly improved and publicly available on GitHub. In return, the scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems hope to exchange insights with other teams. Running experiments on the same platform creates comparative data – an ideal foundation for rapid progress in the research field of robotics.
Felix Grimminger Avadesh Meduri Majid Khadiv Manuel Wüthrich Maximilien Naveau Vincent Berenz Steve Heim Felix Widmaier / Kloss Jonathan Fiene Alexander Badri-Sprowitz Ludovic Righetti
MPI for Intelligent Systems continues video series
- 29 April 2020
Video No 4 is now available
Short films present scientists' research projects in an understandable way
Alejandro Posada Georg Martius Alexander Badri-Sprowitz Andreas Geiger Sebastian Trimpe