This video shows ongoing research towards using the feet of a legged robot for simple manipulation tasks. In this example, ANYmal makes use of its large range of motion to reach up to press an elevator button. The button is localized with help of a QR tag.
The video is sped up 4x, the entire scene took 30–40 s.
Credits: Péter Fankhauser, Marko Bjelonic, Marco Hutter
For more information visit:
www.rsl.ethz.ch
www.anymal-research.org
This work has been conducted as part of ANYmal Research, a community to advance legged robotics.