The next generation of humanoids may be able to do most things that humans do including climbing stairs, walking for many hours, walking in rough terrains and even fixing problems in complex disaster situations, where it's very dangerous for humans. But Robot can perform these task very easily and accurate.
"Robots are rapidly evolving from factory workhorses, to increasingly complex machines capable of performing challenging tasks in our daily environment, Roland Siegwart, director of the Autonomous Systems Lab of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and a well known robotics expert, said his team is working to develop mobile robots that act autonomously in complex environments.
"The walking robots we are developing have muscles and tendons like humans, which are elastic and allows them to recover energy if they are walking or running. Each time it touches the ground, the tendons are loaded like a stretch and it's able to get the energy back."
"These machines can go anywhere humans can go. For instance, they can climb stairs which are very steep, unlike other robots. There is potential to use them in the environment that requires humans, especially in extreme catastrophic cases where things need to be fixed and it's very dangerous for humans."
These robots can walk for two to three hours when fully charged.
