Comment 201 Re: Impressive

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Robot Velociraptor Now Fastest Thing on Two Legs

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Impressive (Score: 1)

by computermachine@pipedot.org on 2014-05-31 23:44 (#1ZM)

It's very impressive seeing it get over those obstacles at that speed with no hassle.

Re: Impressive (Score: 3, Informative)

by fatphil@pipedot.org on 2014-06-01 21:18 (#200)

Getting over the obstacles? No hassle? Did you not see its tether go taught? Without that tether it would have fallen asimo over tit.

However, more importantly, it's a planar biped.

Planar bipeds are not interesting. Everyone in the robots community, apart from students who work on planar bipeds, will be cringing at this "advance". The little robot in the icon at the corner of the summary is more interesting, from a robotics perspective.

Re: Impressive (Score: 1)

by computermachine@pipedot.org on 2014-06-01 22:49 (#201)

I watched it again, and you are right. It looks like the tether keeps it on the treadmill.

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