Robots used for teaching and student projects
6 x Unitree Go2 and 1 x Unitree Go2 robot dog
Quadruped robots featuring a lightweight yet robust structure. They are equipped with LIDAR for precise recognition and obstacle detection, enhancing their all-terrain capabilities, making them useful for agri-tech application
3 x Robotriks RTU Platforms
Autonomous agricultural platforms that can be equipped with advanced robotic devices and AI to offer precision farming solutions, enhancing productivity and efficiency in agricultural operations
5 x Mitsubishi arms
Industrial robots, used so students can learn robot programming for pick and place tasks
2 x 4ft tall semi-humanoid Pepper robots
Designed for interactive human engagement and equipped with speech recognition modules. This enables it to converse languages and maintain eye contact, making it well-suited for a variety of public assistance and social interaction roles
12 x In-house built Pole Balancing Robots
Inverted pendulums, used to teach students aspects of control engineering and provide a microcontroller-controlled platform
Laboratories and robotic facilities used for research
Motor Learning and Robotics Lab
The vBOT is a custom-built back-drivable 2 degree of freedom planar robotic device.
These includes a 3BOT manipulandum, as well as a smaller 3DOF manipulandum. The former is a extension of the VBOT manipulandum that operates in 3 dimensional space.
This is 3D printed 3DOF arm that is actuated using worm-drive motors.
This can be used to examine strategies to control and modulate the stiffness of a single link robot arm.
These are more sophistically version of the inverted pendulums use for teaching.
SoAIR Laboratory
A two-armed robot with an animated screen that is capable of grasping objects during human-robot collaboration.
A humanoid robot used in different applications like education and entertainment.
A full humanoid robot capable of grasping objects and interacting with people and the environment. It is an ideal platform for related research to embodied cognition.