Right now we’re moving a little beyond just locomotion or walking – we’re trying to combine this with vision so the robot can actually navigate by itself.Īudrow Nash: Let’s talk a bit about the Cheetah 2. With the MIT Cheetah robot we developed a lot of component technology specifically for locomotion. We’ve been focusing on locomotion capability because that’s currently a missing component in robotics technology. We need a robot that can actually move around unstructured environments.
Robotic technology stems from manufacturing applications, but in these applications robots don’t need to move in an unstructured environment they are mostly moving on a rail or not moving around at all. Sangbae Kim: Our motivation is to be able to develop a robot that can move around in a dangerous environment like Fukushima or a building on fire, so that we can send in a robot without worrying about putting a human in danger. I’ve been working on bio-inspired robots focusing on locomotion capability.Īudrow Nash: What is the goal and motivation of your research? Sangbae Kim: I’m an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
Professor Kim, would you introduce yourself? He is a recipient of King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Transactions on Robotics Paper Award (2008), DARPA YFA(2013), and NSF CAREER (2014) award.Īudrow Nash: I’m at ICRA 2015 with Professor Kim from MIT. This achievement was covered by more than 200 articles. The MIT Cheetah achieves stable outdoor running at an efficiency of animals, employing biomechanical principles from studies of best runners in nature. Kim’s achievements on bio-inspired robot development include the world‘s first directional adhesive inspired from gecko lizards, and a climbing robot, Stickybot, that utilizes the directional adhesives to climb smooth surfaces featured in TIME’s best inventions in 2006. His research focuses on the bio-inspired robotic platform design by extracting principles from complex biological systems. Sangbae Kim is the director of the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory and an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
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