Sony has figured out how to get the Qrio, its new humanoid entertainment robot, to run:
The sleek and diminutive Qrio, which until recently had been known as Sony’s SDR robot entertaining crowds with fluid and funky dance motions, can now trot at a speed of 15 yards per minute. If 23-inch, 15-pound Qrio were average human-size, that would translate into 1.5 miles an hour. The big technological breakthrough, says Sony, was in getting both the robot’s feet to lose contact with the ground at once. Up until now humanoid or two-legged robots have needed to have one foot on the floor to move stably.
Sounds to us like they’ve just taught the Qrio how to finally escape from its human masters.
Read [Thanks, Yang and Serge]
