India's first commercial walking robot Stoch uses machine learning to move around The robot is the size of a small dog with four legs and a thick but flexible spine. When connected to a battery, it starts walking on slender, articulated limbs, like a canine. It even has a 'face' that looks vaguely like that of a pug. The developers at the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-physical Systems at the Indian Institute of Science ( IISc ) are calling it ' Stoch ' and they say it's on target to become the country's first commercial "walking" robot. Stoch has been under development since January last year. The first version was displayed a month ago at Aero India - it was heavy-footed and clumsy. A sleeker second version was developed just two weeks ago and a third will be ready in three months. A commercial variant is about a year away. The robot uses machine learning to figure out how to walk by itself. Specifically, it uses reinforcement learning, whe...
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