Today’s Humanoid Robots Look Remarkable—but There’s a Design Flaw Holding Them Back
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Summary
The brain-first approach to creating humanoid robots has resulted in physically unnatural machines, says Sony, which is calling on the development of flexible structural mechanisms to improve motion.
Robots’ bodies must become physically intelligent so their AI brains can focus on high-level strategy and learning, argues London South Bank University’s Hamed Rajabi.
His research group is working on hybrid hinges that combine the strength of rigid joints with the adaptive properties of compliant ones to achieve complex, life-like motion.
This new generation of robots would be able to leave the lab and function in the real world.
