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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
"Revolutionizing" the way robots move in complex environment
- 20 November 2018
The Movement Generation and Control Group is an important partner of the new European Project Memmo
The EU funded Memmo project aims to revolutionize the way robots with arms and legs move by developing novel real-time methods for motion generation of complex robot, able to cope with the complexity of humanoid and other legged robots in realistic industrial and medical environments. The 4-year-project, led by the LAAS-CNRS in France, involves 10 different partners across Europe including the Movement Generation and Control Group at MPI-IS.
Awards for Two Master Theses
- 07 June 2017
Cédric de Crousaz and Julian Viereck receive the ETH Medal for their outstanding Master Theses
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize 2016 for Ludovic Righetti
- 18 May 2016
Medal-Marathon for Robotics Researcher
Tübingen – Stockholm – Berlin – Stockholm – Tübingen; Ludovic Righetti receives within 24 hours two renowned prizes for young researchers for his outstanding science on movements of robots
2016 RAS Early Career Award (Academic)
- 05 February 2016
for Ludovic Righetti, Group Leader AM Department
recognizing "his contributions to the theory of, and experiments in, robot locomotion and manipulation".
Scientists at the MPI for Intelligent Systems receive more than 3 Million Euro ERC Starting Grants
- 20 January 2015
Intelligent Systems Research: Spanning the Length Scale
Stuttgart / Tübingen. Five years of basic research is secured: The physicist Dr. Laura Na Liu and the computer scientist Dr. Ludovic Righetti, both from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, receive an ERC Starting Grant of 1,5 Million Euro, respectively. Prof. Jan Peters, head of the robot learning group at the institute (while mainly active as full professor at the TU Darmstadt) will invest part of his ERC starting grant into his research group at the institute. The researchers have won against 3.273 applicants - only 10 per cent of the submitted project appraisals receive the requested award, granted by the European Research Council (ERC).