RE: Walkers

Andrew,

That clip was included again in the program I watched, so I guess they
haven't made much progress over the years...

... or they have classified it ;-)

Cheers,
   Iain.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Andrew Martin
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 7:26 PM
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: Walkers

Iain wrote:
> I was watching TV last night and there was a discussion on robots and
how
to make them walk. It turned out that it was *easier to programme* a
2-legged robot than a 4-legged (or more) as the complexity of multiple
legs
was a more difficult programming task.	Not 100% convinced myself, but
they
were demonstrating a 2-legged robot.

Several years ago, I remember seeing on a TV Documentary a tethered
Pogo-stick-like hopping robot that could move around (to the limit of
it's
power and communications cable) quite easily. So I think that multiple
legs
do add to the difficulty.

Andrew Martin
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