Pauluffel-
My first idea when I was thinking of making the biped was very similar to yours. I was thinking about making a track from the rack gears across the top of the robot. Then I was going to have the RCX on a car with gears for wheels to drive left and right on the track to shift the weight over each leg. It was going to be very similar to how the tram works on my
copy machine.
Dlavevy-
Thanks for the tips but im not to sure that the RCX will be able to read the sensors fast enough/ control the motors fast enough to perform any controlled falling.
Also thanks for the link, there is a lot of great information on that site.
I also just wanted to share this
link that I found with everyone. It has a bunch of videos of different bipedal robots.
The first set of robots (Sony SDR-4X) sing a little song and dance. Also check out the robot that walks backwards as the man pushes it with his finger. I don’t know why but that one creeps me out.