Cornell robot sets a record for distance walking

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The celebration begins on lap 20 (2.1 km) as the Cornell Ranger breaks the distance record for a walking robot April 3 in Barton Hall. Accompanying the Ranger are from left engineering graduate students Andrey Turovsky and Greg Stiesberg Jason Cortel ...
The celebration begins on lap 20 (2.1 km), as the Cornell Ranger breaks the distance record for a walking robot, April 3 in Barton Hall. Accompanying the Ranger are, from left, engineering graduate students Andrey Turovsky and Greg Stiesberg; Jason Cortell, manager of the Biorobotics and Locomotion Lab; and Bram Hendriksen, a visiting graduate student from the Netherlands. Credit: Lindsay France/University Photography

We're not sure what brand of batteries it was using, but the Cornell Ranger robot just kept going and going April 3 when it set an unofficial world record by walking nonstop for 45 laps -- a little over 9 kilometers or 5.6 miles -- around the Barton Hall running track.


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