{"id":19049,"date":"2018-07-19T16:33:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19049"},"modified":"2018-07-19T16:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:33:01","slug":"raspberry-pi-lends-a-hand-to-stop-this-robot-falling-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19049","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi lends a hand to stop this robot falling over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hauser_robot.gif?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19050\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hauser_robot.gif?resize=560%2C314&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mems.duke.edu\/faculty\/kris-hauser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kris\u00a0Hauser<\/a> is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and of mechanical engineering and materials science at <a href=\"https:\/\/pratt.duke.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duke University\u2019s Pratt School of Engineering<\/a>. He has developed an algorithm that effectively stops a bipedal robot from falling over by putting out a hand to stop the fall, and it runs on a Raspberry Pi! You can see a promo video from Duke&#8217;s below and <a href=\"https:\/\/pratt.duke.edu\/about\/news\/robots-lend-hand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Robot Catches Itself When It Falls\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VYPqxfzc15g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris\u00a0Hauser is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and of mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke University\u2019s Pratt School of Engineering. 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