Engineers from Italy and Switzerland have succeeded in training a four-legged robot equipped with a manipulator on its back to move complexly configured furniture items across the floor surface without lifting them.
During simulation tests, the robot dog demonstrated high efficiency, successfully moving chairs of various shapes to a specified point in 94 percent of cases. When transitioning to real experiments, the robot was able to complete this task in 40 out of 58 attempts, moving chairs and a tripod table.
The results of this study are presented as a preprint available on the arXiv.org platform.