Golem Krang

Golem Krang is a new humanoid robot designed and built by the Humanoid Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech in collaboration with Schunk Inc. The robot dynamically transforms from a .5 meter static to a 1.5 meter dynamic configuration. Our robot development has led to two advances in the design of platforms for mobility and manipulation: (1) A robot base that autonomously stands from horizontal rest and dynamic limbo! (2) A humanoid torso that adds a waist roll joint to replicate human torso folding a yaw joint for spine rotation and anthropomorphic arms. The mobile torso also achieves autonomous standing in a constrained space while lifting its 50kg arms - over 100 pounds!