Robot Legs Maintain Balance Despite Being Kicked From Multiple Angles

Posted on May 9, 2012

IEEE Spectrum's Automaton blog reports on a self-balancing robot named HRP3L-JSK, which was created by Junichi Urata and his colleagues at the University of Tokyo's JSK Lab. HRP3L-JSK is basically a pair of robot legs powered by a unique electrical actuation system. Poor HRP3L-JSK has no arms or head and is continuously kicked by its creator. The robot legs are repeatedly kicked and kneed from different angles, but never fall down. Most of the kicks are are not very forceful. The robot moves in the opposite direction of the kick to balance itself. HRP3L-JSK also makes a jump near the 1:50 mark in the video. Take a look:

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