Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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This video shows LOLA balancing on different terrain when being pushed in different directions. The robot is technically blind, not using any camera-based or prior information on the terrain (hard ground is assumed).

Technical Details:
Height of the foam sheets: 5cm
Density of the foam: 40 kg/m^3
Compression hardness of the foam: 6 kPa @ 40% compression

For more information on LOLA please see our project's website: mw.tum.de/en/am/research/current-projects/robotics/humanoid-robot-lola

This work is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG, project number 407378162).