The Technical University of Munich and the Institute of Technology Autonomous Systems (TAS) are developing the successor of their robot JOHNNIE. It is called LOLA and it is capable of planning its own walking trajectory through a room in real-time using image data.
LOLA is equipped with gyro sensors in its upper body and 6-axis force sensors in its feet to help maintain balance. It stands 180cm (5?10?) tall, weighs 60kg (132 lbs), and has a total of 25 degrees of freedom (2 legs x7, 2 arms x3, waist x2, head x3). To reduce the load and increase its step length and walking speed, they put an extra toe joint on LOLA. However, LOLA is connected via cables to three computers which handle this task due to the processing power required to perform image recognition.
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