Great Leapin' Bots - Chief Delphi

16-09-2006, 16:46

petek

What would Dave do?

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Re: Great Leapin' Bots

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Originally Posted by dlavery

It is nice that Toyota has finally been able to catch up with the work that Marc Raibert was doing twenty-five years ago.

Of course, Marc's one-legged hopping robots could not jump 4cm. -- all they could do was jump over a meter high, bounce untethered down hallways, and do back-flips while running/hopping.

-dave

So I guess this is just another case of someone reinventing the leg? Don't suppose you have any video? I'd love to see it do the back-flip!

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