Bipedal Robot Breaks 100 Meter World Record

Bipedal Robot Cassie

The new 100m sprint world record is 24.73 seconds. The robot Cassie, created by Oregon State University, set the record. Cassie is the first bipedal robot to use machine learning to maintain a running gait on an outdoor course.

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Bipedal Robot – What Is It?

A humanoid robot that walks on two legs is known as a bipedal walking robot and may be programmed to carry out certain activities.

Scientists have created a robot that combines walking with flying to create a new type of locomotion, making it exceptionally nimble and capable of complex movements.

Although it is a notoriously challenging problem, bipedal robots are one of the most heavily researched areas of mechanical engineering, and there is no shortage of material from which to draw inspiration.

A fantastic example of this is Cassie, a brand-new robot from Agility Robotics, whose stable yet precise gait was inspired by birds, specifically ostriches.

Bipedal Robot running — **The Robot’s knees resemble those of an ostrich, and it runs virtually blindly without the use of cameras or external sensors. Machine learning is used to regulate the Robot’s running stride.**

This is the bipedal robot’s 100-meter milestone time that holds the Guinness World Record.

Cassie, the OSU robot, ran 100m in record time and bagged the world record. In fact, if we run a little faster than our average jogging speed, we can easily thrash Cassie’s record.

What’s special about this is the implications that this record attempt will have on the future of AI, machine learning, and robotics.

Finance for Bipedal Robot

Cassie, the bipedal robot, was developed by OSU’s College of Engineering. The robot was developed with a $1 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). A neural network trained for about a year in simulation controls Cassie.

Challenge

It was difficult to start and stop when standing.
The hard part was to figure out how to make the robot sprint from a standing position and then return to the same position when it stops. This setting was necessary for the record.

In 2017, Cassie was revealed to the public. In 2021, the robot ran 5km in a little over 53 minutes. Running was Cassie’s easy task.

Record

Cassie ‘walked up’ to the starting line at OSU’s Whyte Track and Field Center.
The record the robot attempted to break was more of a measure of effective average speed across a certain distance.
Cassie ran the course in 24.73 seconds, starting and stopping in a standing position, and bagged the record.