biomechanics – Artificial Intelligence https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:43:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Hexapod https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/hexapod/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 20:28:13 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=2380

The Hexapod is a spider-like robot. Its research objective is to demonstrate the trainability of biomechanical processes in neuronal networks.

By means of various deep-learning frameworks, thousands of simulations and/or training sets for reinforcement learning are run on the in-house servers at Spengergasse Technical School and the Technical University of Vienna and subsequently tested on the Hexapod. However, to get a clearer picture of its physical surroundings, the Hexapod has recourse to a stereo camera, which puts the information about these surroundings to use. Thanks to object recognition capabilities, the robot can navigate independently in it field of deployment and execute tasks.

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