ICRA 2021 Workshop on Legged Robots (Towards RealWorld Deployment of Legged Robots)

Title: Making of a jumping robot

Abstract
PAL robotics has been developing technology for a new bipedal platform that will enable research in dynamic locomotion and advance towards more capable and robust humanoid robots. The project is named Kangaroo as the robot has been designed thinking in highly dynamic motions such as jumps. The talk will cover the hardware design and an overview of the control system of the robot as well as presents preliminary experiments with prototype actuators for the leg length and hip joints.

Bio
Luca Marchionni obtained his BSc in Control Engineering in 2005 and his MSc in Systems and Control Engineering in 2007, both at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He joined PAL Robotics in 2009 as Software and Control Engineer, where he participated in the development of wheeled and biped robots, taking care of dynamic simulations, autonomous navigation and bipedal walking software. In 2014, Luca became the CTO, in charge of supervising research and development activities and ensuring that they serve the company’s overall business strategy. Currently, he is also the Project Manager of the TALOS robot.

This video was part of the ICRA 2021 5th Workshop on Legged Robots.
For more information, check our website: leggedrobots.org