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  Re: Jumping 'bots?
 
Thanks! I had wondered how a jumping robot might be achieved. This document has started the ideas flowing. :) --Doug Wilcox -----Original Message----- From: Brown, Walt <Walt.Brown@Dialogic.com> To: 'lego-robotics@crynwr.com' (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Jumping 'bots?
 
Funny that this thread should come up again today- I saw on the Early Show this morning these cool remote controlled two-legged bots that stood up by themselves and balanced using a gyro-scope. A one legged hopper could probably balance this way, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Jumping 'bots?
 
(...) Don't forget that large mass moment of inertia slows down the tendency of a two-legged walker to tip over. It's why us humans are made to stand upright on out hind legs. You can achieve a large mass moment of inertia by making it tall, wide (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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