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Making a Stable Walking Robot Is a Lot Easier When It's Just Legs

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Getting a robot to balance and walk on two feet is a massive challenge, as the DARPA Challenge revealed. But it turns out it's a little less tricky when you focus on just the legs, as the Alphabet-owned SCHAFT's newest bipedal creation demonstrated by confidently walking out on stage at the New Economic Summit going on in Tokyo. Until it's revealed outside of the conference, we'll have to settle with shaky smartphone footage of the demo reel SCHAFT played during its presentation. But the video shows the lab's development of its latest bipedal robot, including the impressive progress it's made when it comes to dealing with uneven terrain, and random obstacles that would easily trip up other walking bots. Details on what the new SCHAFT robot is capable of are slim at the moment, but apparently it's designed to be low-cost and low-power.