ANYMAL THE WHEELED LEGGED TRANSFORMER ROBOT- MARKO BJELONIC : SWISS MILE

#robot #robotics #robots #artificialintelligence #toctw #podcast   Marko Bjelonic is a roboticist, future entrepreneur & founder of Swiss Mile the team behind ANYmal- the wheeled-legged robot. Swiss-Mile extends research of the last five years by deploying a multimodal platform to tackle last-mile delivery challenges and logistics with superior speed, efficiency, versatility and payload capability. With both legs and wheels, the robot outperforms state-of-the-art wheeled delivery platforms as well as lightweight delivery drones. It is the only solution capable of carrying tools, materials, goods and sensors over long distances with energy efficiency and speed while overcoming challenging obstacles like steps and stairs and enabling seamless navigation in indoor and outdoor urban environments. During his doctoral degree at ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter , Prof. Dr. Stelian Coros  and Prof. Dr. Sangbae Kim. Marko developed optimization-based methods focusing on motion control and planning for wheeled-legged robots over challenging terrain , which has more than a million views through prestigious news articles like Reuters, CNN, BBC News, IEEE Spectrum and more. Marko holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from TU Darmstadt, Germany .  He spent the first year of his Master's degree at the Cybernetics department of NTNU in Trondheim, Norway . During his studies, he worked at the Mercedes-​AMG GmbH in Affalterbach , Fraunhofer LBF in Darmstadt , and most notably at CSIRO in Brisbane with Dr. Alberto Elfes and Dr. Navinda Kottege on multi-​legged robots.  Previous work during his Master's thesis consists of the development of the hexapod robot, Weaver, including its state estimation, perception, autonomy, and control algorithms. In 2020, he managed his family-owned business with an annual sales of 350K USD and negotiated a company sale in 2021. https://ch.linkedin.com/in/bjelonic  https://www.markobjelonic.com  https://mobile.twitter.com/mbjelonic https://www.swiss-mile.com/