Madison construction robot dog supporting hands-on student learning

A construction robot is getting its footing, using the Kellner Family Athletic Center’s construction site, next to Camp Randall on the UW-Madison campus.

Unitree B2 is a high-tech robot operated by engineering students, like Liqun Xu, a Ph.D student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin.

Xu has been able to take the robot to JP Cullen’s construction site, testing its ability to move around the site and do simple tasks.

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