Virtuix enters collaboration with University of Central Florida

Virtuix (VTIX) announced a collaboration with the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation & Training to demonstrate a humanoid robot steered in real time using Virtuix’s Omni One omni-directional treadmill. The collaboration shows how the Omni’s 360-degree movement platform can help address a key limitation in humanoid robot teleoperation by allowing a human operator to walk and move naturally in any direction without boundaries while the robot mirrors that movement. In the collaboration, the Omni One operator experiences the robot’s point of view through “vDen,” a stereoscopic “CAVE-like” projection system that fully surrounds the operator with a visual environment and does not require a head-mounted display. The vDen system enhances operator comfort and makes it easier to reference physical objects in their environment and collaborate side-by-side with other users – advantages that are particularly valuable in defense, research, and industrial applications.