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Re: Robotic "Velociraptor" invented
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- Subject: Re: Robotic "Velociraptor" invented
- From: "Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 16:05:39 -0600
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On 5/30/2014 3:05 PM, Ben Creisler wrote:
From: Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com
An off-beat news item for a Friday...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2458768,00.asp
The sidebar has another project from 2011 which turns out to be from the
Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and is called
"FastRunner".
http://www.ihmc.us/groups/fastrunner/
FastRunner is a new bipedal platform inspired from the fastest biped
animals, and developed at IHMC. A novel leg design is being developed to
enable FastRunner to achieve unprecedented efficiency and speed while
being self-stabilizing. The FastRunner project is funded by the DARPA
agency through the Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) program.
Has a quite different foot structure. Oh, and the illustration shows it
armed ;)