{"id":207987,"date":"2024-02-25T04:32:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T04:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/25\/robot-dog-learns-to-open-doors-with-its-leg-now-there-is-nowhere-to-hide\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:36","slug":"robot-dog-learns-to-open-doors-with-its-leg-now-there-is-nowhere-to-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/25\/robot-dog-learns-to-open-doors-with-its-leg-now-there-is-nowhere-to-hide\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot dog learns to open doors with its leg. Now there is nowhere to hide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gone are the days of robots needing arms, with a group in Switzerland teaching a robotic dog to use one of its legs instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/robotics-are-making-life-safer\/\">robot dog<\/a> has been taught how to open door doors, press buttons, and even pick up a rucksack through the use of machine learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"This robot dog has learned to open doors with its leg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eHEFIY1fk5g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"This robot dog has learned to open doors with its leg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eHEFIY1fk5g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philip Arm and his colleagues at ETH Zurich, a public research university in Switzerland, have used a machine-learning model to teach an ANYMal robot how to balance on three legs and use the other to carry out tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2418439-a-robot-dog-has-learned-to-open-doors-with-its-leg\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Scientist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the researcher explains the reasoning for making this into a reality: \u201cWe cannot do everything with the legs that we could do with an arm \u2013 right now, a hand is way more dexterous.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut the point is really to make this work for applications where you maybe have mass constraints, or we don\u2019t want to have that additional complexity, like for space exploration where every kilogram of such a <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/robotics-how-much-do-you-know-about-this-innovative-industry\/\">robot<\/a> counts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this scenario, the machine-learning model was given the objective of finding a specific point in space with one of the robot\u2019s legs. The model then worked out how to control the remaining three, while balancing and walking or standing. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Typically, a robot with four legs and two arms can be of considerable weight, making the device less agile than people may require.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People working within the Robotics Systems Lab at the University have also been expanding on this, with research into lifelike agility by learning from animals. They\u2019ve looked at ANYmal tails for stability during discontinuous locomotion too.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is the ANYmal robot?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Created by ANYbotics, the ANYmal is described as being a \u2018robust, autonomous, agile inspection solution with ready-to-go high-quality sensors.\u2019 The team at ETH Zurich has been using it throughout their projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was designed to be a rugged four-legged robot that can carry out inspection and manipulation tasks. It\u2019s even said to be able to operate in rain, snow, wind, waterlogged rooms, and dusty environments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Featured image: AI-generated in Ideogram<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"about-author\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar col-md-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/avatar_user_26583_1708362924-250x250.jpeg 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-125 photo\" height=\"125\" width=\"125\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/avatar_user_26583_1708362924-125x125.jpeg\"\/><noscript><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/avatar_user_26583_1708362924-125x125.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/avatar_user_26583_1708362924-250x250.jpeg 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-125 photo\" height=\"125\" width=\"125\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/noscript>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-avatar --><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-description col-md-10\">\n<h3 class=\"author-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/author\/sophie-atkinson\/\">Sophie Atkinson<\/a><\/h3>\n<h5 class=\"author-role\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFreelance Writer<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"author-bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sophie-atkinson-b8377013a\/\">Sophie Atkinson<\/a> is a UK-based journalist and content writer, as well as a founder of a content agency which focuses on storytelling through social media marketing. She kicked off her career with a Print Futures Award which champions young talent working in print, paper and publishing. Heading straight into a regional newsroom, after graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in Journalism, Sophie started by working for Reach PLC. Now, with five years experience in journalism and many more in content marketing, Sophie works as a freelance writer and marketer. Her areas of specialty span a wide range, including technology, business, marketing, and finance.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><!-- .author-bio --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-description -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/robot-dog-learns-to-open-doors-with-its-leg-now-there-is-nowhere-to-hide\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Gone are the days of robots needing arms, with a group in Switzerland teaching a robotic dog to use one of its legs instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342351,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207987\/revisions\/342351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}