Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsA group of three VIT University students, two of them in final year of Electronics and Communication Engineering branch and the other in third year Electrical Engineering branch, calling themselves as Team Grubs, have developed a humanoid robot, nicknamed iZac (Inspection zombie and cyborg), which can dance to the tunes of the Superstar.Naman Jain and Yogesh Mohan Gupta, both ECE students, and Rajat Misra of EEE, said iZac was a phase 4 prototype that had taken one-and-a-half years of hard work. The 42 cm tall robot, weighing 2.8 kg, could walk forward, sideways and backward (at a speed of 1 cm per sec), hop, dance to tunes and climb stairs with steps of 3 cm height. The robot had 19 servo motors (used for angular motion) that could be controlled using a wireless protocol control console.The Rs 3.5 lakh project was fully funded under Research Grant for Engineering, Management and Science (RGEMS) of the university.first published:September 15, 2012, 10:10 ISTlast updated:September 15, 2012, 10:10 IST
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A group of three VIT University students, two of them in final year of Electronics and Communication Engineering branch and the other in third year Electrical Engineering branch, calling themselves as Team Grubs, have developed a humanoid robot, nicknamed iZac (Inspection zombie and cyborg), which can dance to the tunes of the Superstar.
Naman Jain and Yogesh Mohan Gupta, both ECE students, and Rajat Misra of EEE, said iZac was a phase 4 prototype that had taken one-and-a-half years of hard work. The 42 cm tall robot, weighing 2.8 kg, could walk forward, sideways and backward (at a speed of 1 cm per sec), hop, dance to tunes and climb stairs with steps of 3 cm height. The robot had 19 servo motors (used for angular motion) that could be controlled using a wireless protocol control console.
The Rs 3.5 lakh project was fully funded under Research Grant for Engineering, Management and Science (RGEMS) of the university.
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