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Re: Legged Robots
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:53:32 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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But the really fascinating part of the article is the discussion of the
benefit of this type of locomotion over traditional robotic bipeds and
wheels. Traditional robot-bipeds and wheeled robots are such that at any given moment they are
fully stable. Organic movement (springy movement) is such that at any moment
it is unstable - constantly falling from unstable position to another.
This means that Springy Motion, by being unstable at moments, creates greater
overall stability. ..snip..
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As a cyclist, I’ve known this for years, and I didn’t even have to play around
with rocket powered roaches.
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Applying this to LEGO Robot and Bot construction, this means that Pedal
robots are more realistic (given a future timeframe) than wheeled robots - or
at least, they have the potential of being equally or even more efficient in
their locomotive abilities.
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I look forward to seeing the first springy legged Lego robot.
Cheers,
Allister
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