On 11/02/2008, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that state of the art is just now getting to dynamically-stable-only > biped walkers. I've seen a couple of articles in the past year, but it > certainly isn't widespread, and it remains to be seen how real.
Famous robots such as ASIMO are far less energy efficient than humans in bipedal locomotion. The passive/dynamic aproach has become more popular in recent years, with some research robots approaching human levels of energy efficiency. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~shc/robots.html ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=94603346-a08d2f
