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Climbing a continuous 17-story staircase, relying solely on a depth camera with no external sensors, no pre-programmed maps and no help from sophisticated motion capture systems used in laboratories, that just happened and the TienKung Omni was pushed to the limit in a sequence of real-world tests that tested its physical endurance and built-in intelligence.
This three-dimensional perception allows the machine to operate both under bright daylight and in dark environments, where conventional vision systems could fail. In a seemingly simple task for a human being to climb steps, the machine needs to recalculate the balance of the torso and the force applied by the actuators in every fraction of a second to avoid a backward fall. After that, the robot navigated internal corridors full of curves and obstacles, navigating completely autonomously.
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