Morti – the robot dog that learns to walk independently
Using the four-legged robot dog Morti, researchers are simulating how animals gradually learn fluid movements. photo
© Felix Ruppert/DLG Research group at the MPI-IS/dpa
When giraffes and foals are born, they first stumble and stumble through the grass. Using a robotic dog, researchers are now simulating how animals gradually learn fluid movements.
He’s not made of flesh and blood, but of cables, plastic and copper, but when he first tries to walk he makes young giraffes or foals look pretty old: The four-legged robot dog Morti doesn’t have a real head, is the size of a Labrador and is learning up and running in just an hour. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart built it – to find out how animals learn fluid movement sequences. They present their development in the journal “Nature Machine Intelligence”.