The Self-excited Tripedal Dynamic Experimental Robot (STriDER) walks by swinging one leg forward using gravity to carry it and preserve energy like humans, but it also flips its entire body upside-down with each stride. This unusual form of locomotion is surprisingly stable and efficient but the technology still needs a bit of work before we can expect to see this sort of thing traveling outside of the lab.
Obviously reverse-engineered from Wellsian Martian war machines.
Gah! This thing sure has a creepy gait. Spidery!
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought: a spider-bot...
ReplyDeleteH.G. WELLS WAS WRONG...
ReplyDeleteThe Martians actually died of motion-sickness. "Oooooolaaaaah" was the sound of them losing the Martian equivalent of their lunch....
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