Watch the HyQReal Robot Pull an Airplane
The HyQReal quadruped robot is big, powerful, rugged, and capable of walking off with your Piaggio Avanti
The Dynamic Legged Systems Lab at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) has been working with hydraulic quadrupedal robots since about 2010— we first met their HyQ research platform at IROS 2011, and they’ve been using it for some consistently impressive research since then. But nine years is a very, very long time in robotics, and HyQ has been showing its age relative to the more recent (and more dynamic) generation of quadrupeds like SpotMini, ANYmal, and Cheetah 3.
Today, IIT is announcing a brand new and massively upgraded quadruped called HyQReal. It’s designed to be big, powerful, and rugged, and to demonstrate its capabilities, IIT figured that they might as well see if it could pull a three-ton airplane.
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