Arash with the new hexapod robot called HEXA

The Robot Intelligence Lab at Imperial has acquired its first legged robot — a hexapod robot called HEXA.

HEXA is an all-terrain hexapod robot with a variety of sensors, an open operating system, and an open SDK.

The robot's master and lead researcher is the PhD student Arash Tavakoli who has been selected by the robot maker, Vincross, as a Human Mentor and has been awarded an exclusive early developer edition of HEXA. As an awardee, Arash joins a community of developers and researchers coming together to develop the first commercial version of HEXA.

Arash aims to apply machine learning techniques — and in particular, reinforcement learning and deep learning — to enable HEXA to independently learn a variety of new skills, such as learning fast gaits.

HEXA will join a rapidly growing set of robots at the Robot Intelligence Lab, among which is the flagship robot DE NIRO.

More information about HEXA and all robots:
//www.imperial.ac.uk/robot-intelligence/robots/

Robot Intelligence Lab:
//www.imperial.ac.uk/robot-intelligence/