Teleoperated robots have been around keep getting smarter all the time. They are already capable of following your hand motions. Getting their footsteps to sync with a human at a high speed can be challenging though. Researchers have now come up with a new approach for transferring stepping motions from a user to robots in real-time. As they explain:
instead of directly replicating user foot poses, we retarget user steps to robot footstep locations, allowing the robot to utilize its own dynamics for locomotion, ensuring better balance and stability. Our method anticipates user footsteps to minimize delays between when the user initiates and completes a step and when the robot does it.
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