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FAIRMONT Building, planning and plotting, several Marion County students took it to the limit in last weekends 2017 VEX Robotics West Virginia Regional Tournament.

The Marion Comets team, which consists of seven members, is led by Fairmont Senior High School science teacher Ann Burns.

The Marion County robotics teams were made possible by the creation of West Side Robotics in 2009, a nonprofit organization that helps fund teams in the county and promotes an interest in the field.

We were finding that a lot of times with kids who were on LEGO Robotics teams, one of the things was, if you wanted to get sponsorship from other organizations or businesses, sometimes they wanted it to be tax-deductible, West Side Robotics President Cheryl Van Horn said. The reason we became a nonprofit was to provide a way to help fund and support the robotics teams.

The Comets were part of a 23-team field at the Robert H. Mollohan Research Center Feb. 4, all vying for a chance to go to the state tournament.

In VEX competitions, the teams are presented with an engineering challenge game, and they must build and develop robots to accomplish their goal. The teams usually compete directly with each other, trying to score as many points in a given game as possible.

During the regional tournament, two alliances, composed of two teams each, competed against each other to rack up points by scoring different items in each others zones and hanging robots from hanging bars.

Mobility is definitely important in this game, especially defensively, Marion Comets team member and FSHS student Sinead Tobin said. We talked with other teams a little bit. We were considering what would be the highest scoring elements in the game, and we built our robots around that. Originally, we had three groups that put together three robots and we had a small scrimmage. We just combined elements from each one.

The Marion Comets were split in half for the competition, with Team B led by Tobin.

Tobin said that VEX Robotics provides an outlet for middle school and high school students interested in science, technology, engineering and math to put their skills to the test in a fun and competitive way.

It really isnt that common, but theyre trying to bring more STEM activities to the youth because there is such a great need for those jobs, and there will be in the future, Tobin said. (My siblings and I) are all computer geeks, so it kind of runs in the family.

Indeed, promoting interest in STEM fields is a primary goal of the robotics competitions, according to NASA Program Manager Todd Ensign.

West Virginia faces an uncertain economic future if we do not adapt our business sector to focus more on high-technology industries, Ensign said in a previous interview. Our students are currently not adequately prepared to engage in the high-tech job sector and are leaving our state for opportunities elsewhere.

We need to empower our educators to provide the necessary career, STEM and 21st-century skill training to our students in order to counter these trends and entice businesses to our state. The No. 1 concern of employers considering locating or relocating in West Virginia, and in particular this area, is a labor-ready workforce.

While the Marion Comets didnt win the regional competition, theyll have another chance to go to the state competition during another qualifier on Feb. 25 in Charleston.

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Math, science, engineering and teamwork skills were put to the test in Brooklyn today as students competed using LEGO robots. Our Bree Driscoll has the story.

10-year-old PS 57 student Isabel Silva has been learning about robots for the past three years. But this year, she is exploring a whole new aspect of the technology.

"Well I have never used a sensor for a robot but I am learning about it and you need to program the sensor so the robot can stop and it is really hard to learn because I have never used a sensor on a robot before," Sliva said.

Silva is one of more than 250 students from around the city competing in the 2017 First Lego League Brooklyn Qualifiers. Teams have been working for five months on building a robot that is designed to do complex tasks. The goal is to put their science technology engineering and math skills to the test.

"It's putting it into practical terms so they can turn from playing with a robot on a competition field to Years from now programming the Canadarm Two on the international space station," said Norm Sutaria, director of programs for NYC FIRST.

"It really encourages them and makes them feel a part of something," said Daron Burrows, with the city's Department of Youth and Development. "Part of a community. It makes them feel cool and appreciated and smart."

This year's competition challenge is called Animal Allies it asks teams to explore and research how people and animals interact, something students are really identifying with.

"Because they are really amazing creatures. Birds with mouths, beaks that can chop wood off," said Adryan Torres, a student at PS 100. "That is really amazing. We can't do that. We don't have beaks we have mouths."

"Dolphins they communicate using vibration sounds in the ocean so water pollution caused by humans can actually effect the sound in the ocean," said Melodie Whiting, a student at Young Women's Leadership School of Queens.

From here, winning teams will move on to the semifinal competition in early March.

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NEWARK, NJ The RoboRocks and the 3Engineers from the Livingston Robotics Club were recently honored by the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders for their hard work and tremendous accomplishments, especially as first time competitors in the FIRST LEGO League (FLL), Competition

Livingston Mayor Shawn Klein was also present during the presentation and shared remarks congratulating the team for their success and fantastic innovations. At-Large Freeholder and Livingston resident Patricia Sebold, who sponsored the commendations, praised both teams as she presented them with citations.

Both teams are from Livingston, and Livingston is my hometown, said Sebold. Ive lived in Livingston since 1962, and I am proud to honor the 3Engineers and Roborocks.

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The Livingston Robotics Club Team has been very busy during the 2016 season, capturing recognitions throughout the year, according to the board.

In December, the 3Engineers competed in the North Jersey FIRST LEGO League State Championship and won the Champions Award and the Judges Award. The team also won the 1st Place Robot Game Award at the 2016 FLL Sparta Qualifying Tournament.

The RoboRocks won the Core Values Award and the 1st Place Robot Game Award at the 2016 FIRST LEGO League Clifton Qualifying Tournament and also participated in the 2016 Northern New Jersey FLL State Championship Competition.

The RoboRocks and the 3Engineers competed in the FLL State Championship for the first time against 60 teams composed of children from ages 9 to 14 from Northern New Jersey. The teams were judged in three areas, including: project, robot design, and core values. The competition was composed of a three-round robot game.

This years theme was Animal Allies, focusing on challenging students to create an innovative solution to solve a real-world problem to improve the interactions between humans and animals. The teams designed, built and programmed an autonomous robot to compete in the Robot Game, which comprised many missions related to the Animal Allies theme.

The thams goal was to create an innovative tool to improve relationships between animals and humans, and the 3Engineers Team accomplished this by presenting a drone to provide tracking and communication to rangers to stop poachers from killing African rhinos. Equally as innovative, the RoboRocks Team presented a prototype, the Deer-Off Dog, which uses lights and sounds to scare deer away from the backyards.

The Livingston Robotics Club Team was founded in August 2007 and was formally named Livingston Robotics Club and became a 501(c)(3) in 2008. Its mission is to provide a community-based experience-sharing network to introduce Livingston area youth to robotics design and real-life science research, consistent with the vision of For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST).

Today, the club has grown to become a Kindergarten-to 12th-grade community-based science and robotics organization with more than 100 student members from Livingston and surrounding towns. The club is composed of 30 volunteer parents and mentors that lead the teams, and they encourage youth to actively partake in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education with hands-on project based learning.

Jay Slavin, Chandu Mulinti and Sachin Sawant coached the 3Engineers Team whose members are: Logan Slavin, Aarav Mulinti, and Kavin Sawant. Geoffrey Zheng and Jim Wang coached the RoboRocks Team whose members are: Kevin Zhang, Shining Wang, Isabelle Gao, Valentina Zheng, Hannah Shi, and Grant Zhou.

The coaches also shared remarks, thanking the board for thecommendations and recognition. The coaches stressed that the kids efforts were a combination of both STEM education and teamwork. The teams look forward to achieving more success in the future.

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Woodall School's Cybercats Robotics Team participated recently in the Broken Arrow VRC-Vex StarStruck Tournament at the Broken Arrow Academy, a news release states. Woodall eighth-grade student Ty Brant and third-grade students Hunter Williams and Isaiah Chavez displayed a high level of enthusiasm and passion for robotics and showed they understand how to work together to develop their robot. The team won two of six matches against middle and high school teams from across the state.

In the VEX Competitions, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams from around the world in a game-based engineering challenge. Classroom STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)concepts are put to the test on the playing field as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more.

Tournaments are held year-round at the regional, state, and national levels; local champions go on to compete against the best in the world at VEX Worlds each April.

Information: Dr. Geary Crofford, (918) 456-1581, gcrofford@woodall.k12.ok.us orwww.vexrobotics.com.

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Ford Motor is spending $1 billion to take over a budding robotics startup to acquire more expertise needed to reach its ambitious goal of having a fully driverless vehicle on the road by 2021.

The big bet announced Friday comes just a few months after the Pittsburgh startup, Argo AI, was created by two alumni of Carnegie Mellon University's robotics program, Bryan Salesky and Peter Rander.

The alliance between Argo and Ford is the latest to combine the spunk and dexterity of a technologically savvy startup with the financial muscle and manufacturing knowhow of a major automaker in the race to develop autonomous vehicles. Last year rival General Motors paid $581 million to buy Cruise Automation, a 40-person software company that is testing vehicles in San Francisco.

The Argo deal marks the next step in Ford's journey toward building a vehicle without a steering wheel or brake pedal by 2021 a vision that CEO Mark Fields laid out last summer.

The big-ticket deal for the newly-minted company clearly was aimed at getting Salesky and Rande. Salesky formerly worked on self-driving cars at a high-profile project within Google now known as Waymo and Rander did the same kind of engineering at ride-hailing service Uber before the two men teamed to launch Argo late last year.

"When talent like that comes up, you don't ignore that ability," said Raj Nair, who doubles as Ford's chief technical officer and product development head.

The two will develop the core technology of Ford's autonomous vehicle the "virtual driver" system, which Nair described as the car's "brains, eyes, ears and senses."

The decision to turn to Argo for help is a tacit acknowledgement that Ford needed more talent to deliver on Fields' 2021 promise, said one expert familiar with Salesky and Rande.

"This is likely a realization that Ford is behind relative to companies like GM, Audi, Volvo, Waymo and Uber, and is trying to catch up," said Raj Rajkumar, a Carnegie Mellon computer engineering professor who leads the school's autonomous vehicle research.

Salesky said Argo expects to have 200 workers by the end of the year. Argo employees will be given stock in the subsidiary as part of their compensation packages so they will be enriched if Argo's technology becomes a hot commodity.

The equity should set Argo apart from other companies in recruiting scarce tech workers. "There's a war for talent out there," Fields said.

By joining with Ford, Argo gets strong capital backing and expertise on other components needed to run autonomous cars, as well as product development and manufacturing knowledge, Salesky said. In return for its funding, Argo will design its driverless system exclusively for Ford and then have a chance to license the technology to other automakers in the future.

Competitors such as NVIDIA have developed artificial intelligence that learns about different situations as it's tested on roads, something that is almost essential for an autonomous car to function in heavy traffic on city streets.

Ford isn't just racing General Motors and other automakers to gain robotics experience. Uber bought autonomous trucking startup Otto for an estimated $680 million last summer primarily to get Otto's engineers on its team working on driverless vehicles. Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski, another former Google engineer, is now overseeing Uber's testing of driverless cars in Pittsburgh and Arizona.

AP Auto Writer Tom Krisher in Detroit contributed to this story.

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SINGAPORE:Much like how personal computers transformed the way people saw and used technology, Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation Programme Office Dr Vivian Balakrishnan said the personal, general-purpose robots would revolutionise the way such technologies feature in people's lives.

He was speaking on Friday (Feb 10), at the opening panel discussion of this years Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Hacking Medicine a weekend-long hackathon aimed at finding solutions to improve healthcare and eldercare through the use of personal robotics.

"This revolution of the personal general-purpose robot - capable of sensing, processing and doing things, would be even bigger than the revolution that was brought about in the last 30 years by the personal computer, said Dr Balakrishnan, to an audience of around 160 participants including engineers, clinicians, designers, developers, researchers and business people.

We want Singapore to be one of these nodes where new ideas, crazy ideas, will change the world. Will liberate human beings from the burdens of age. Will help us remain masters of our lives and still retain our humanity, still retain our connections with other human beings and make life better.

Participants will develop software and hardware applications on Loomo a Segway robotic platform, in focus areas of mental health, rehabilitation and recovery, community care or long-term care. These would allow the robots to become robot assistants capable of understanding and engaging with elderly, as well as patients with conditions such as Alzheimer's and others. Participants may also define a suitable challenge statement based around the theme of Social Robotics for Eldercare.

Dr Balakrishnan reminded participants that such solutions had to address real human needs and remain safer than existing technology or treatments. They also had to be more cost effective and financially accessible to all, while remaining acceptable and resonate with human beings on a psychological and emotional level.

When youre dealing with physical devices capable of sensing and responding in a very sophisticated way, that whole usability and human-robot interface is going to be a very rich field for research and development, said Dr Balakrishnan.

Winners of the hackathon will be announced on Sunday, with a top prize of US$5,000. Their projects will also be featured on a panel at EmTech Asia on Feb 15, while selected teams will be supported by agencies such as government-owned private innovation entity SGInnovate to further refine and scale-up solutions.

At the end of that well put some money behind those with real potential, because wed also like to build not only for Singapore, but for other countries as well, said SGInnovates Founding CEO Steve Leonard.

Healthcare is a really big challenge for us. And we think about providing care for people in that age they need more help physically, they need more help mentally, and thats why we think this robotics platform allows us to find new ways to provide that care. Again, the key is how do we keep people living independently as long as we can.

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Drone strikes against terrorism suspects have become such a hallmark of US policy, it's easy to forget the technology is only a couple of decades old.

Also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, or remotely piloted aircraft, drones are part of a much bigger robotics revolution sweeping the globe and shaping the contours of conflict in this century.

There are "good guys like environment groups tracking down poachers, and bad guys like ISIS which, Singer says, conducted 60 different drone operations around the battle of Mosul in December 2016 and January 2017. A rebel group, a terrorist group operating a little miniature air force, thats not something we saw before,"Singer says.

Singer, author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century and Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War says all this proliferation poses constant new challenges.

Robotics are also in play in high tension zones like the Persian Gulf and the South China Sea, where China recently seized and later returned an American underwater drone. Singer also worries about unmanned aircraft jousting with each other in the skies, the way Chinese and Japanese drones have done recently.

What happens when one of these things crashes? Or what happens when one of these things accidentally bumps into a manned machine?, he asks. I have my own opinions on how the different laws of war apply, but the point is not everyone shares these understandings."

The technology continues to move ahead and our politics, our policies, our laws, they have a hard time keeping apace with it, he says. I like to describe it this way: technology moves at an exponential pace, whereas our laws move at a glacial pace, if that, and the disconnect becomes wider and wider.

Some critics believe the US executive branch now wields too much unchecked power to kill individual terrorism suspects overseas, without oversight from other branches of government. The use of targeted drone strikes thatstarted under President George W. Bush andsharply increased under President Barack Obama, is expected to continue under President Donald Trump.

Even within US borders, ethical issues have arisen over how and when to use robotics in law enforcement. Last summer we had this episode where the Dallas Police Department used a robot that had been originally designed for bomb disposal and instead they jury-rigged it with a bomb and used it to blow up a sniper, says Singer. So we had an ad hoc weaponized robotic system used in a lethal manner inside the United States.

Singer isnt necessarily saying yay or boo, on this, as he puts it. This is something new, and this question hasnt been figured out, he says. My personal take on it is Im not comfortable seeing each and every little local police department figure this out on their own.

It's too early to say how Trump will use drones and other robotics for law enforcement at home, anti-terrorism efforts and in conflict abroad. Ethical questions persist about Obama's use of drone strikes more than 500 strikes, or 10 times more than George W. Bush, but with a tiny fraction the number ofcivilian casualties caused by the US conventional warfare in Iraq.

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Beyond ethical concerns, Singer is also concerned about the new administrations dismissive attitude toward science, research and development, what he calls the "crown jewels" for America.

"And when you threaten those, either by defunding programs or restricting access to data, or kicking out or keeping out scientists, you jeopardize the crown jewels,this thing that's been so important to America. ...If were seeing a revolution in technology, in business, in war, the worst thing you can do is try and take away the assets that will allow you to succeed in that revolution.

The United States still has an edge, globally, in military robotics, Singer says, but China is gaining ground fast, and Japan and some European players have an edge in other areas. "If you think about this as a race, and you slow down to a walk and the other guy is running, even if they're behind you, at some point they'll catch up and pass you."

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Team members from left: Aaron Doull, Enapay Croy, Kaylie Prieur, Kaden Smith, Evan Smith, Markay Williams and mentor Arpad Depaszthory JOE PRIEUR | FISHY BUSINESS INC.

Ont Saturday, Feb. 4, the South Beach robotics team Fishy Business Inc. qualified for the FIRST Technology Challenge West Super Regional Championship set for March 9-12. That competition will pit the top 74 teams across 14 western states against one another in Tacoma. Top placers in that event will advance to the world championships in Houston in mid-April.

The local team took fourth place in qualifications at the state championships in Kent and won the Control Award for its documentation of robot control components. In the competition, teams composed of students and adult mentors build game-playing robots they operate in head-to-head challenges in an alliance format with other teams.

South Beach-area students involved were Ocosta High seniors Enapay Croy, Aaron Doull and Kaylie Prieur, junior Kaden Smith, freshmen Evan Smith, Samatha Starkey and Markay Williams, along with seventh-graderr Jayson Davidson, have put in thousands of hours as a team since the season began in September to design and build a robot that will perform prescribed tasks in the competition setting.

With their performances at their past four events, including first place at the interleague event, there is a high likelihood that they will also qualify for world championships, said mentor Joe Prieur.

The team has been meeting several evenings during the week and long days on weekends. Their hard work and determination is paying off, but they need help getting to the next competition. Up to this point, the team has relied primarily on grants received earlier in the season from Boeing, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and FIRST. Further progression requires funds to be raised to cover necessities like travel, lodging, meals, registration fees and replacement robot parts, he said.

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Toward that end, Fishy Business Inc. has established a GoFundMe account, with the goal of reaching $6,000 within a month to help defray expenses for air travel, overnight stays, meals, ground transportation and robot parts.

4H Ocosta Robotics is a registered non-profit under 4H. Donations may be tax-deductible and donors are advised to see a tax professional for further details.

You can follow the teams progress on Facebook at fb.me/FTC11121 or search Facebook for FTC11121.

Their Facebook page includes a link to the GoFundMe site.

If a local business is interested in sponsoring the team or having the students do a presentation to better understand the skills learned and developed by the team, they may be reached by email at: FRC3787@gmail.com

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South Beach robotics squad advances to super regionals - The Daily World

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. Patriot Robotics VEX team, 405, and Kenwood Knights Sword, 98706K, of Clarksville, TN, along with partner, 97934V team Valiant, from Franklin Road Academy had a huge win at the White House competition on February 4.

These teams formed the 3rd seeded alliance and would surprise the competitors in the final matches.

Patriot Robotics consists of George Michael Huttick, a senior of Rossview High School, Matthew Riley, a freshman, and Adam Riley, a junior, both attend the STEM academy at Kenwood High School.

Team Valiant consists of David Chandler, Conor Ireland and James Munn, all seniors, and freshman Tennent Grace Smith from Franklin Road Academy.

The Kenwood Knights Sword consists of Chance Piefer, Adam Berenger, Jared Bauman and Connor Thomas, all juniors, and freshman Savannah Piefer from the Kenwood STEM academy. The team also includes senior Nathan Bailey.

The independent team Patriot Robotics seeded 3rd after four qualification matches and picked the 6th seeded team Valiant, Franklin Road Academy. They finished off alliance selection by choosing Kenwood Knights Sword to make an incredible alliance. From there the alliance had to fight to get to the finals. Facing the last seeded alliance was not a problem for the teams, however, semifinals proposed a bigger problem.

The semifinals match consisted of the alliance having to face three Brentwood Academy teams that work together on a regular basis. The Brentwood teams had beaten Franklin Road and their alliance at a previous tournament.

405 and its partners pulled off the win and moved onto the finals where they would have to face an alliance of two more Brentwood Academy teams. After not losing a match all day the 3rd seed alliance went in confident and won their last finals match drastically and didnt even let Brentwood Academy score, giving them the outstanding result of 48-0.

Patriot Robotics also pulled off another huge win by also winning the most coveted award in VEX robotics, the Excellence Award.

Now with all of the 3rd alliance teams qualified for state, much practice and work is needed to stay ahead of the reigning former state champions, Brentwood Academy. The state tournament will be held on March 4 at Brentwood Academy where the top 30 teams in the state will go head to head in the knowledge of their robots and how well teams can drive and program their robots.

They have a few weeks to prepare to win 5 of the TN state spots that will get to compete at VEX Worlds Championship in Louisville, KY in mid-April.

Patriot Robotics 405 is the only team representing Tennessee at the U. S. Open National Robotics Championship held in early April in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

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Patriot Robotics Alliance upsets Brentwood Academy Alliances - Clarksville Now

Robots that walk like humans have been somewhat of a holy grail in the robotics industry for decades but what if, instead of mimicking their creators, they instead mimicked our prehistoric ancestors?

Agility Robotics, a business venture offshoot of the College of Engineering at Oregon State University (OSU), has just unveiled Cassie, the latest leap forward in bipedal robotics, complete with a gait that closely resembles an ostrich or a raptor.

We werent trying to duplicate the appearance of an animal, just the techniques it uses to be agile, efficient and robust in its movement, Jonathan Hurst, Co-founder and CTO of Agile Robotics and associate professor of robotics at OSU,told the University newspaper.

Using a 16-month, $1 million grant from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the Department of Defense, the team at Agility Robotics successfully built Cassie from scratch in under a year, using custom components that met the stringent technical requirements for such a durable and flexible machine.

For instance, Cassie possesses a hip similar to a humans, allowing for forward and backward mobility as well as the ability to rotate, essential for traversing difficult terrain.

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Its legs feature powered ankles which greatly reduce the amount of shuffling required to stay upright, a rather unnerving trait displayed by so many of her robotic predecessors such as the ATRIAS series.

The ATRIAS prototypes were also developed by the team at OSU to better understand bipedal locomotion and further their understanding of what it would take for a machine to tackle rough terrain.

We learned a few key things with ATRIAS, Hurst explained, when speaking to Spectrum IEEE, ...the legs on ATRIAS are configured as a 4-bar linkage...however, the configuration results in one motor acting as a brake on the other, with a lot of power cycling internally between motors rather than doing work on the world.

This particular flaw was resolved in two ways: firstly, at the design stage, the distinctive avian articulation of the legs reduced the number of motors required.

Secondly, improvements in battery technology, specifically in lithium-ion batteries, have eliminated the need for a safety gantry (an eye sore and major limiting factor in previous walking robots) as well as allowing the majority of mobility processing to take place on board.

The robotics revolution will bring with it enormous changes, perhaps sooner than many people realize, Hurst said to the OSU newspaper, highlighting the speed with which the industry is advancing.

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While the team are one day looking to compete with Amazon in automated package delivery, one obvious application for a free-moving bipedal robot would be in disaster relief and emergency response.

Containment efforts in biohazardous or radioactive events, such as the Fukushima disaster in 2011, have often been frustrated by both human fragility and robotic underdevelopment.

Hurst sees Cassie as the next major leap towards a bipedal robotics revolution, If we really understood how to implement dynamically capable legs, there would be so many applications for them, including search-and-rescue, exoskeletons, powered prosthetic limbs, and package delivery.

Cassie is still undergoing testing before a full commercial launch later this year but the team at Agility Robotics have already set the short to medium term goals of adding arms, so that future Cassie prototypes can self-right, as well as incorporating VR elements into future models to allow for telepresence.

Their ultimate goal is to produce sub-$100k robots for a variety of industries.

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Raptor legs & human hips: Giant leap for walking robots - RT