Agility Robotics has unveiled a dynamic walking robot called Cassie that can do a range of tasks, from delivering parcels to helping search and rescue operations. The robot, which is controlled by an app on your smartphone, uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed at the University of Washington in Seattle. Agility Robotics is a spin-off firm of engineers from Oregon State University and is funded by a $1m, 16-month grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the US Department of Defense.
Agility Robotics has unveiled a dynamic walking robot called Cassie that can do a range of tasks, from delivering parcels to helping search and rescue operations. Cassie is built on a simple spring-mass model, which was first designed to explain animal walking and running gaits, a concept that is sometimes referred to as an "ostrich bot". Agility Robotics is a spin-off firm of engineers from Oregon State University and is funded by a $1m, 16-month grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the US Department of Defense.