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Dinosaur-Like Tails Make Terrestrial Mobile Robots More Agile (ieee.org)
4 points by w-ll on Jan 4, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I once drew up some sketches of a two-legged robot with a head and a tail like a velociraptor. I theorize you could weight the head and tail to balance and make the walking a little more mechanical, so if you start to tip, there's a lot more leeway to regain balance. I guess I can afford more technology than I could back then, hmm, perhaps I might dust those off.

I bet this thing can pull of some wicked Dukes of Hazzard style jumping, though.




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