A team at Carnegie Mellon University engineered its Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform, or Chimp, to excel in unpredictable terrain. “The greatest challenge of humanoid robots is balance,” says head of software Clark Haynes. “Chimp has static stability, so it’s never at risk of falling over and never actively balancing, because it doesn’t have to.”

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• Country: USA 
• Company: Carnegie Mellon University