Re: Robot Dinosaurs

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/9/2001 9:51:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
j_mallon@hotmail.com writes:

<Hmmm... I saw an article both in a magazine (can't remember the title) and 
on the Internet regarding some very recent work being done with a robotic 
_Troodon_.  I think looking up something like 'robot Troodon' on a good 
search engine (like www.google.com) might reveal something. >

See the March 2001 issue of Discover at:
http://www.discover.com/recent_issue/index.html
"Pushing the Envelope on Large Robots" and its following companion piece 
"Walking on Two Legs" address these issues.  From the latter:

< Not all ancient reptiles were giants. Troödon, for example, was a late 
Cretaceous dinosaur that grew up to six feet long and four feet tall. Over 
the past four years, Peter Dilworth, a robotics researcher at MIT's Leg Lab, 
has built a 10-pound version of that dinosaur called Troody, the first 
two-legged dinosaur robot. Dilworth consulted with paleontologist Gregory S. 
Paul to ensure that the dimensions are as true to the real thing as possible, 
based on fossils.   >

Mary
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