The Dynamo-Grade joint laboratory, recently launched with the Gepetto team from LAAS-CNRS and TOWARD, the French robotics startup, aims to create a competence center to design, program, and produce, fully autonomous legged robots (humanoids and quadrupeds) able to move and interact in partially structured dynamic environments.
This continues a collaboration that was already in place between LAAS-CNRS and TOWARD, the French partner of Barcelona-based service robotics company, PAL Robotics. The Dynamo-Grade laboratory’s main goal is to implement a complete solution for bipedal and quadrupedal artificial locomotion to become a reference center able to develop the next generation of humanoid robots for which the Boston Dynamics Atlas robot is the first visible model.
The lab, based in Toulouse at the premises of LAAS-CNRS, aims to improve legged robots along three scientific axis:

The Dynamo-Grade lab directly contributes to the long-term objectives of the two partners. For TOWARD, Dynamo-Grade will boost research and innovation to bridge the gap between research platforms and the adoption of robots in the mass market. For LAAS-CNRS, the strategy for accelerating innovations in artificial locomotion is to involve the industrial fabric by transferring skills to make them gain technological maturity. The project is complementary to the Dynamo-Grade ROB4FAM of the LAAS-CNRS Gepetto group and Airbus.