The Robot Teleoperativo 2 project is basically a robotic dog, based on HyQReal, that has two arms designed to inspect dangerous objects. It is being developed by researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) and Istituto Nazionale per l’Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro (INAIL) with the goal of keeping humans out of harm’s way.
Unfortunately (or fortunately), this is not a fully autonomous robot, but rather a teleoperated robot deployed to perform tasks and reduce human exposure to potential dangers. In other words, a human operator with a VR headset controls the robot from a remote location, although we do expect the next version to be AI-enhanced at the very least.
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The ultimate goal is to develop intuitive teleoperation/telepresence systems…using a new generation of robots, for interventions that involve locomotion and manipulation in unstructured scenarios. This subsystem will adopt a plug-in architecture; a main computer shall be responsible for the communications between the PILOT station and the FIELD robot,” said the researchers.
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