20.04.2011 18:50 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Chinese robotic triceratops skeleton packs Linux, no horns

FROG has a long way to go before it can become a real dinosaur. It's skinny, it's awkward -- in fact, the camouflaged robot is downright timid when compared to, say, the horn-wielding matador's nightmare that is Boston Dynamics' BigDog robot. It's a heck of a start, though. FROG -- that's Four-legged Robot for Optimal Gait -- is actually a prototype of a triceratops skeleton designed by Dr. Wei Wang and a number of PhD students at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Automation. It has joint angle sensors, acceleration sensors, a pan-tilt camera, and a number of other sensing devices. FROG's got a Linux system inside and communicates wirelessly with a hos

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