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    Getting Robots to Walk (.PDF Download)

    Sept. 27, 2013

    At Oregon State University, Professor Jonathan Hurst and his teams are developing walking robots based on a simple, stripped-down model of the legs on humans and other two and four-legged animals. The model, the spring-loaded inverted pendulum, consists of...

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