Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) · robot dog
HyQReal
A 130 kg battery-powered hydraulic quadruped built with Moog, carrying its own hydraulics and computers. It was presented at ICRA 2019 in Montreal.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 90 cmTaller than 91%
- Weight
- 130 kgHeavier than 100%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Pulled a 3,300 kg Piaggio P180 passenger aircraft more than 10 m.
Real-world use
Funded by IIT and Moog with INAIL and EU ECHORD++ support
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)Government lab · founded 2003 · Genoa, ItalyAbout EUR 90 million a year from the Italian government; RobotCub received EUR 8.5 million from the European Commission
How it stacks up
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HyQReal is taller than 91% of the 22 other robot dogs that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
HyQReal is heavier than 100% of the 41 other robot dogs that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
HyQReal has more joints than 0% of the 23 other robot dogs that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: speed, payload, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention HyQReal gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs · 12 joints
- How it runs
- Assisted. Researchers commanded its movements while it balanced itself, for example while pulling a small aircraft.
- Actuators & motors
- Hydraulic: Moog Integrated Smart Actuators with 3D-printed titanium bodies housing servo valves, sensors and electronics; two independent hydraulic pumps (front and hind legs); Moog also supplied pump units, manifolds and rotary unions
- Compute
- Two on-board computers, one for vision and one for control
- Battery & power
- 15 kg battery, estimated at about two hours
- Materials & build
- Aluminium roll cage with Kevlar, glass-fibre and plastic skin; mostly sealed against water and dust; 130 kg, 1.33 m long, 0.9 m tall
- Other details
- Pulled a 3,300 kg Piaggio P180 Avanti aircraft more than 10 m at Genoa Airport
Named suppliers:Moog
Lineage
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Research robot
- Sold or delivered
- not sold
- Where it is sold or used
- IIT, Genoa, Italy (IIT-Moog joint lab)
- Customers and pilots
- Funded by IIT and Moog with INAIL and EU ECHORD++ support
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- HyQReal pulls a passenger plane
IIT and Moog showed the 130 kg hydraulic quadruped towing a 3.3 t aircraft at Genoa Airport.
Moog - IEEE Spectrum details HyQReal
IEEE Spectrum described HyQReal's titanium hydraulic actuators, battery and two on-board computers.
IEEE Spectrum
Sources
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