In women's artistic gymnastics, beam is the third event in the Olympic order. This apparatus is 4 inches wide, 16 ft long and ...
Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI) has made a remarkable leap in robotics by developing a system that allows a standard quadruped robot to walk on a narrow balance beam! According to ...
Over the years, gymnastics routines have become very formulaic and even predictable. Most gymnasts perform the same range of ...
While quadruped robots may surpass their wheeled counterparts at traversing rough terrain, they still aren't able to maintain their balance when moving along narrow ridges. That could change, though, ...
The final day of competition at the 2024 Olympics was one of mixed results for the greatest American gymnast of all time. Simone Biles was able to win a silver in the floor final but missing the ...
Researchers have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam -- a feat that is likely the first of its kind. Researchers in Carnegie ...