Draco 3
Draco 3 is a lightweight bipedal humanoid developed by the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin together with Apptronik. It uses liquid cooled viscoelastic actuators and a compact leg design for agile walking. The lab's collaboration with Apptronik links academic research to the Apollo commercial humanoid.
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How the score is built
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What people buy instead.
- Status
- Research
- Category
- research
- First revealed
- 2022
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- n/a
- Weight
- n/a
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric, liquid cooled viscoelastic actuators
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- no
Where it stands
Research humanoid of UT Austin's Human Centered Robotics Lab built with Apptronik; used for whole body control research.
What stands out
- Liquid cooled viscoelastic actuators
- Joint project with Apptronik
- Platform for whole body control research
Autonomy, observed
Published walking and balancing experiments in lab settings
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: none in base configuration
- Sensors: IMU, joint encoders, cameras
- Compute: onboard real time computer
- AI stack: whole body controllers and learned policies
Price and volume
research prototype
Sources
- 01Human Centered Robotics LabUT Austin
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