KAIST Hound Robot Successfully Breaks 100 Meter Outdoor World Record, Unggungli Competitors From The US On Treadmill

Robot KAIST Houd. (Source: KAIST)

JAKARTA - The Houd Robot with artificial intelligence (AI) made by the Korean Advanced Science and Technology Institute (KAIST), managed to break a 100-meter world record for a four-legged robot four months ago, citing Guinness World Records.

KAIST Houd, developed by the Educational Agency's Dynamic Robot Control and Design Laboratory, recorded a time of 19.87 seconds on the institute's outdoor trajectory in Daejeon, October 26.

The robot set another record that could possibly be a second world record. Aiming to break an indoor record, Houd managed to use a treadmill and hit a maximum speed of 6.5 meters per second. This figure beats Cheetah 2 which was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, which recorded a time of 6.4 seconds, quoted from The Korea Times January 15.

Professor Park Hae-won, who oversees the development of Hond, has submitted an application to Guinness World Records for indoor records.

Hond developed a fast-run technique through reinforcement learning, a data-based AI learning mechanism. Park's team programmed the self-learning system for Hond, by including maximum torques for its motors and systems to increase speed.

The team also worked on the bike to distribute its output evenly, through the robot's legs to achieve a balanced and symmetric four-legged movement. Hond feet are specially designed with light ingredients to lighten their overall weight.

"Hund has proven that Korea has globally indisputable technologies in robotic and AI hardware that can self-control robots," said Professor Park, which specializes in the control and design of dynamic robotic systems, legs-on driving robots and bio-inspired robots.

It is known that the Defense Development Agency, under the Administration of the country's Defense Acquisition Program, supported research on the Houd by providing funding in 2019 for the development of new defense technologies.