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1993

Start of the Cog project at MIT

United States of America · Humanoid

In the summer of 1993, Rodney Brooks's group at MIT began building the humanoid robot Cog. The upper-body robot was used to study embodied intelligence and was among the first humanoids with series elastic actuators. [1][2]

Sources

  1. IEEE Intelligent Systems (MIT CSAIL) – Humanoid Robots: A New Kind of Tool
  2. ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics – Cog

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Start of the Cog project at MIT
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