German researchers have an artificial monkey built. The robot is designed in the likeness of a real monkey, and the need to support research into robots that, by nature, ge lwa nspireerd. The gorillarobot can independently as a monkey around.
The gorillarobot was developed at the deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, and was iStruct called. IStruct was modeled after a gorilla, and can on its hind legs and knuckles walk. In addition, the robot with a pole propped up to be and are no remote connections to computers are needed. All of the intelligence to walk away is in the robot itself, in the Control and Information Processing Compartment. That command center allows the robot forward, backward and sideways like a real monkey.
One of the methods to iStruct, of course, to make them move, is the use of sensors in the hind legs. That is the position of the joints and the pressure on the ‘feet’ to the computer. To iStruct in the future even more natural to make them move, like the researchers, the rigid spine is replaced by a moving spine, which moves with the walk. The robot can nonetheless adapt to different terrains, among others, by its weight to move to the slopes to climb.
The 18-kilogram iStruct is 66 inches long, 43cm wide and 75cm high, and is powered by lipo batteries. That supply energy for the twenty-six engines and the central computer. In each of the feet 49 druksensors, an accelerometer, a distance sensor, positiesensors and thermometers. In addition, each joint continuously the position and the movement measured. IStruct is part of the ruimteonderzoeksprogramma of the DFKI and would in the future would be for exploration; the robot is in an artificial crater tested.
