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  Re: Tripod Design...
 
(...) Ooh, there were some very cool old scifi books about conical aliens with three legs. In the novels (whose names and author I cannot recall), they sort of rolled, canted up at an angle. This would require some pretty serious balancing. Maybe a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Tripod Design...
 
(...) Probably the White Mountain trilogy, made into _Tripods_ by the BBC. Cool books, and a surprisingly mature juvenile book series, IIRC. For a tripod walker, you'd probably need to either to do a spinning walk, where only one leg is down, (but (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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