Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch | Lex Fridman Podcast #114
Passive dynamic walking demonstrates that robots can move efficiently using gravity and momentum rather than active control at every step
Russ Tedrake
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Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT, and vice president of robotics research at Toyota Research Institute (TRI). He specializes in control theory, dynamics, and underactuated robotics, focusing on how to command robots in complex, stochastic environments where traditional control methods fall short.