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Re: A walking robot with (only) two legs
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Date: 
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:09:13 GMT
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CONGRATULATIONS !!

I've been thinking on how to do this for some time (two-legger) but I
haven't had a lot of playtime yet.  Kudos to you for solving the problem
of weight-shift ?

Questions:
1. How Sturdy is it ?  Could you extend it to greated heightif you
midified the weight in the "sling" or no?

2.  Any thought of now implementing a knee joint or other mechanism to
collapse the lifted leg ?

Just Wondering, and again, congrats.  Cute looking little thing as well...

-A


Andrew Phelps
Graduate Assistant
Rochester Institute of Technology
http://www.rit.edu/~amp5315/


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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



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  Re: A walking robot with (only) two legs
 
Andrew , (...) In its present configuration it is stable and strong enough. If you want to extend its height and weight, you have to compensate this adding more weight on the "sling", or better making it move further more "out" to the right and the (...) (26 years ago, 28-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  A walking robot with (only) two legs
 
I built a walking robot that has just two legs. It has a very limited functionality: cannot turn neither detect or avoid obstacles. The interesting thing IMO is it walks shifting its centre of gravity from one leg to the other, making possible for (...) (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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