Thursday, February 17, 2005

Come to Papa! "Robot 'learns' to walk like a toddler" - using feedback systems that tell the robot it's 'falling' forward and systems to use that information to 'catch' itself with the next leg, this robot can learn to walk the same way that humans do. Why is this important? Well, this system allows the robot to walk using gravity to assist it- the same way we do. Other robots move every body part and joint.. using much more energy. This robot uses a tenth of the power to move that other ones do. A great... uh.. step forward for robot design.

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