Gadgetory

this is salto which stands for assault tutorial locomotion on terrain obstacles Salta drill being the Latin word for jumping and it's a word biologists use when referring to jumping animals the special thing about this robot is that it can jump higher and faster than any other robot that's out there right now has 56% more vertical jumping agility salto can jumps better than it can jump hacker can jump to 1 meters starting from a full standstill saltos not just impressive because it can do this big jump to a meter high once it does that jump salto jumps again so we can do this really high power jumping hyper continuously and chained together these manoeuvres and out of large leaps so jumping off the wall you can actually gain height that you aren't able to have what I really enjoy about researching robotics is being able to look at animals for new ideas and use those to create better robots salto is inspired by a Galago which is a bush baby the Galago can jump to like 1.7 four meters or so biologists have found animals adapted specifically for jumping have this kind of super crouched posture the longer they stay in a Crouch the more energy that can transfer into their tendons and the more energy they can return for jumping so we built into salto the capability for a super Crouch what that allows is to have the motor be able to stretch out the spring and keep the robot crouched for longer now that salto is jumping this well what we want to do is try to explore new behaviors the closest model for what we're trying to do is human parkour you have these people that like Excel and running over buildings bouncing off on all these crazy obstacles using stuff that would otherwise be enough to hook like a wall as a feature to help yourself move which is one thing I've noticed well with the motivation of urban search-and-rescue what we want to do is try to do extended behavior with chained together series and jumps to get places you weren't able to before in the future we'd like to be able to take a map of environments and extract from that places to jump good spots for jumping and then be able to direct salto about where to jump how high and how far