China’s award-winning ‘Transformer’ robot is much more than meets the eye
- International recognition for Chinese designers of ‘Origaker’, a bio-like robot that mimics animal movements
- Inspired by nature, the metamorphic mechanism flips, spins, creeps and crawls to adapt to its environment
The robot, named Origaker, can change its shape to simulate the movement of various types of reptiles, mammals and even arthropods within a single mechanical structure.
The mechanism was designed by a team led by Dai Jiansheng from Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Biomimetic Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the Southern University of Science and Technology.
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China’s award-winning ‘Transformer’ is a life-like robot in disguise
The team was awarded the 2022 Best Journal Paper prize by the editor and editorial board of Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, a top journal in the field, on September 5, for their research describing the design and implementation of the robot.
The paper was chosen from more than 100 manuscripts, representing the most innovative and influential research results in the field. Dai’s paper scored highest among the six assessed categories: scientific frontier, degree of innovation, theoretical height, method design, experimental results and paper writing.