I know what you’re thinking. I know you’ll see this and say “Okay great, he’s *really* good at using the playstation controller or whatever. So what, big deal.” Oh no, my friends, make no rash assumptions, this leetle droid is doing all by himself:

The bioloid robots climbs a freely configurable wall, this is NOT a predefinded motion sequence. It is part of an autonomous system that first looks for possible ways up (according to the abilities of the robot and to physical constraints) and after placing the robot at the start position of the chosen path the robots climbs up just by knowing the x/y-positions of the grips.
The final scenario will be a bioloid looking at the wall using an onboard vision system, detecting marked grips, calculating the best way up, walking to the start position and climbing up the wall, totally autonomously.

This is the project of student, robosoccer referee and RoboGames contestant Marko Wickrath, in association with the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany & University of Manitoba, Canada.

Here’s a demo of the inverse kinematics used to help the robot with arm and leg placement:

This demonstration has 4 different target positions only and it shows the system’s accuracy even at a very high speed. This is part of an autonomous system that first looks for possible ways up a climbing wall (according to the abilities of the robot and to physical constraints) and after placing the robot at the start position of the chosen path the robots climbs up just by knowing the x/y-positions of the grips.

In other words, it does this by being awesome. Stay in school, kiddies.

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