The robotics research of Dr. Aaron Ames, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, was featured on Discovery Channel Canada's Daily Planet. The segment focused on the work Ames and his students are doing in the A&M Bipedal Experimental Robotics (AMBER) Lab.
Ames is working on the design, simulation and fabrication of a robot that will walk like a human. Science fiction has long promised two-legged, humanlike robots that can walk among us, but those are not yet reality. Ames, a self-described sci-fi buff, is building the robots himself.
The AMBER Lab was established in 2008 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and is devoted to both theoretical and experimental research in bipedal robotics, locomotion, nonlinear and hybrid systems, and prosthetic design.
The video can be viewed here