Current Asian Games discus tournament, several used to carry the discus of the machine dog on the scene, which is the world’s first time in the tournament to use the machine dog to transport sports equipment.
Comprehensive Zhejiang Online and other local media reported that after the athletes throw the discus, the robot dog will transport the discus from the finish line back to the starting point. According to reports, the dogs come from a technology company in Binjiang, Hangzhou, and are known in the industry as “quadrupedal robots”. Among them, the smaller robot will complete the front flap, sit, bowing and other actions, while the latest generation of robots can complete the counting, translation, directions and even broadcast the weather and other functions.
The company developed a machine dog in the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Spring Festival Gala stage appearance, and performance. The relevant reports that the reason why machine dogs are for the transportation of sports equipment, is because of their speed and human jogging. In addition, the robot dog is equipped with a load-bearing 1-2kg standard discus on the back of the slot, the staff will be placed in the discus after the slot and can be manipulated the first time the robot dog will be transported back to the starting point of the discus, the average distance between each round trip is about 120m, in accordance with a game back and forth 60 times to calculate the words, is equivalent to the previous discus competition staff more than 7000m of workload.
Reportedly, due to the movement of the robot dog caused by the discus center of gravity change, easy to lead to the transportation process “overturned” and thus wear and tear of the game equipment, so the staff adjusted the motion control algorithm, to ensure that the robot dog can move freely when the weight is loaded.
