UT Austin (with Meka Robotics and Apptronik) · legged machine
Mercury
An adult-height pair of research legs with passive ankles, so it has to keep stepping to stay balanced; used to study highly dynamic walking and push recovery.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A research machine from UT Austin, Meka Robotics and Apptronik.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- First shown
- 2018
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
UT Austin (with Meka Robotics and Apptronik)University lab · Austin, Texas, USAPublic attention
How much public attention Mercury gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs
- How it runs
- Assisted. In the lab it balanced and recovered from pushes by itself while researchers set what it should do.
- Actuators & motors
- Six series-elastic actuators (three per leg) with Moog BN23 brushless motors and Meka linear SEA drivetrains; passive ankles
- Sensors & vision
- STIM-300 IMU, motor and spring-deflection encoders, absolute joint encoders, ground-contact switches; PhaseSpace motion capture
- Compute
- Intel Core i5-7300U, 4 GB RAM
- Battery & power
- Tethered 1 kW, 48 V DC power supply
- Materials & build
- Carbon-fibre torso, linkages and covers; aluminium drivetrains
- Other details
- 22 kg; 150 cm tall
From the maker
Mercury is the only machine from UT Austin, Meka Robotics and Apptronik in the atlas.
Watch Mercury
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
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