Matt Bunting, student with his very own Hexapod
"One of the things I wanted to explore was the idea of reinforcement learning using an artificial intelligence... I wanted it to figure out how to walk straight forward on its (hexapod) own”, said Matt Bunting, a senior at the University of Arizona in electrical engineering.
Hexapod was Bunting's final class project on cognitive robotics. Built from spare parts, and to let the robot adaptively learn how to move he used an Intel Atom processor powering an Ubuntu OS computer. With Logitech Quick Cam to watches what happens when movements are initiated, and a changing scene to determine what effect the movements are having.
Intel ordered themselves two copies to take on an international publicity tour for the Atom processor. A couple days after Matt posted a video of his bot on YouTube, Then, the company who provided Matt with the servos, Crust Crawler Robotics, asked Matt to help develop a software for some of their hexapod kits.
Matt's hexapod Artificial intelligence learning can be applied to tasks other than wait, it can relearn how to walk. The robot even has foot contact sensors that can be used for terrain adaptation.
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It is a very interesting article and nice to read.
Wow i just saw that you tube video posted above.That robot is really cool.
Really an informative post. I didn’t hear about this before.Intel taps a student project which is based on robotics.