Agile Movements: Animal Behavior, Biomechanics, and Robot Devices 

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Robotics education is challenging due to a lack of accessible hardware. Especially when teaching AI, robotics courses are often restricted to simulation, which leaves out crucial components of the field. We aim to combat these challenges using Pupper, an agile open source quadruped that can be built-in-house for under $2000. Using Pupper, and a carefully-designed curriculum, we aim to democratize AI and robotics education - helping spread the field to underrepresented and low-income groups. Our curriculum takes students from PID control of a single 3-DOF arm (constructed from a leg of Pupper) to reinforcement learning in a physics-based simulation and the physical quadruped.  Pupper enables students to gain hands-on experience in the most important topics in AI robotics, such as perception, reinforcement learning, and sim-to-real adaptation. So far, courses focusing on Pupper have been offered at Stanford, Washington University in St. Louis, Foothill College, Brandeis, George Mason and Pupper is now spreading to other schools internationally. At this demo, we will present this robotics curriculum through a live and interactive demonstration with our robots. 

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