{"id":15437,"date":"2025-10-20T20:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/caltech-attaches-a-drone-to-a-humanoid-robot\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:31:16","slug":"caltech-attaches-a-drone-to-a-humanoid-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/caltech-attaches-a-drone-to-a-humanoid-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"CalTech Attaches a Drone to a Humanoid Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we see, courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/about\/news\/caltech-and-technology-innovation-institute-demo-multirobot-response-team\">CalTech<\/a> and Abu Dhabi&#8217;s Technology Innovation Institute, a humanoid robot walking around with a drone on its back.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>At first, as the robot bends at the waist, I thought this was going to be my worst nightmare:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I thought the robot was going to take off. I didn&#8217;t realize it&#8217;s being used as a launchpad for the drone.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s going on here? Earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.core77.com\/posts\/137150\/Caltech-Develops-Drone-That-Smoothly-Transitions-from-Flight-to-Four-Wheeling\">we looked at that drone<\/a>, which is CalTech&#8217;s ATMO. It&#8217;s a quadrotor drone that can transition from flying to driving, thanks to its rotor-wheels.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The idea here is that the humanoid robot adds a third mobility style to ATMO, allowing it to move through more types of environments. &#8220;Right now, robots can fly, robots can drive, and robots can walk. Those are all great in certain scenarios,&#8221; says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eas.caltech.edu\/people\/adames?back_url=%2Fpeople\">Aaron Ames<\/a>, Director of CalTech&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cast.caltech.edu\/\">Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies<\/a> (CAST). &#8220;But how do we take those different locomotion modalities and put them together into a single package, so we can excel from the benefits of all these while mitigating the downfalls that each of them have?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>My question is, how long will it be until the drone doesn&#8217;t have to disconnect from the humanoid &#8216;bot at all, and the two can just fly together? Maybe a robot dog would be a better candidate for a flight-enabled &#8216;bot. After all, there are already agile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.core77.com\/posts\/136686\/From-Switzerland-a-Wheeled-Dog-Like-Robot-for-Carrying-Cargo\">wheeled robot dogs<\/a> out there, and both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-weapon-war-machine-gun-toting-robot-dog-military-drills-2024-5\">China<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/army-robot-dogs-guns-middle-east\">the U.S.<\/a> are experimenting with attaching machine guns to them. What could go wrong? <\/p>\n<p class=\"at_end\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we see, courtesy of CalTech and Abu Dhabi&#8217;s Technology Innovation Institute, a humanoid robot walking around with a drone on its back. 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