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Posted by John Nagle on June 24, 2006, 11:39 pm
Please log in for more thread options I know; I have two copies of that book.
Raibert had a key insight in the 1980s, that balance
was more important than gait. But when he left
the Leg Lab to found Boston Dynamics, he couldn't
find any way to turn that into a business. Most of
the Boston Dynamics software was, for years, purely
kinematic. It's good to see he's doing dynamics again.
John Nagle
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dan michaels wrote:
> John Nagle wrote:
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>>Very nice. The old MIT Leg Lab guys are back in business.
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>> John Nagle
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> Exactly. I checked this out a few weeks ago, and noted that Marc
> Raibert is one of the main guys at the company. Raibert build many of
> the cool walkers at MIT leg lab in the 80s and early 90s.
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> http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/
> http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/robots/quadruped/quadruped.html
> http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/robots/3D_hopper/3D_hopper.html
> http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/robots/2D_hopper/2D_hopper.html
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> He literally wrote the book on walking robots, for those interested in
> kinematics.
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> "Legged Robots That Balance"
> http://www.google.com/custom?q=raibert+legged+robots
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> incredible achievement to me. It also has the appearance to be a
> potentially practical robot.
> http://www.jumpingpixels.com/robotics.html