MIT engineers create a vest that gives robots human balance and reflexes

Engineers from the University of Massachusetts Technical University (MIT) created a telecontrolled robot for which the operator uses a special vest. This allows you to give the robot a human balance and reflexes, according to the description of the development, published in the journal Science Robotics.

Today, one of the main problems of robotics is the sense of balance by robots. Despite the fact that they already know how to run, jump and do flips, robots are still far from a human sense of balance.

To solve this problem, engineers created vests that are simultaneously put on a robot and an operator - and force the first to repeat all the actions of a person.

Researchers believe that such a system will allow the use of robots to eliminate industrial accidents and other technological disasters.

Earlier, engineers at Purdue School of Industrial Engineering developed a new class of robots that can recreate the ability of chameleons, salamanders and toads to use stored energy to instantly accelerate their sticky tongue. This allowed the robots to achieve bio-inspired powerful and high-speed movements using the accumulated elastic energy.

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