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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Runbo: Newly invented humanoid<br />

robot by <strong>PKU</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2006--9-29<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=159525385<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, September 29, 2006: Recently, the Laboratory <strong>of</strong><br />

Intelligent Control <strong>of</strong> <strong>PKU</strong> College <strong>of</strong> Engineering announced that a research team<br />

led by Wang Long, Changjiang(Yangtze) scholar, has invented a new kind <strong>of</strong><br />

humanoid robot called Runbo-I (running robot).<br />

The ultimate goal in robotics is to make intelligent humanoid robots move relatively<br />

flexibly like human. However the joints <strong>of</strong> traditional humanoid robots are made <strong>of</strong><br />

motors and it moves by driving the legs. Such kind <strong>of</strong> robots move stiffly, with a low<br />

energy efficiency and high cost. Now scientists are trying to invent new humanoid<br />

robots with a different moving mechanism by using a bionic approach.<br />

Runbo is the short word for running robot. Equipped on each <strong>of</strong> its leg with only one<br />

motor as its main drive, Runbo mainly simulates the mode in which human walks as<br />

the whole movement realizes the storing and releasing <strong>of</strong> energy with bionic flexible<br />

knee joint and anklebone. Runbo now can walk steadily and perform cart-pushing<br />

action.<br />

To test the moving ability <strong>of</strong> Runbo, The team has designed an experiment in which<br />

the robot moves with a loaded cart attached to it.<br />

Edited By : Wang Yi<br />

Translated By : Wang Ruoxi<br />

Source : <strong>PKU</strong> <strong>News</strong> (Chinese)<br />

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