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Meet MABEL: World's fastest two-legged robot with knees

Recently, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor made a robot run like a human.

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Running robot: MABEL is now the world's fastest two-legged robot with knees (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A robot in a University of Michigan lab can run like a human -- a feat that represents the height of agility and efficiency for a two-legged machine. With a peak pace of 6.8 miles per hour, ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (10) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Ancient footprints show human-like walking began nearly four million years ago

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that ancient footprints in Laetoli, Tanzania, show that human-like features of the feet and gait existed almost two million years earlier ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

On their own 2 feet: 3.2 million-year-old fossil foot bone supports humanlike bipedalism in Lucy's species

A fossilized foot bone recovered from Hadar, Ethiopia, shows that by 3.2 million years ago human ancestors walked bipedally with a modern human-like foot, a report that appears Feb. 11 in the journal Science, conclu ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Walking robot navigates bumpy ground (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A robot named MABEL with a human-like gait can walk over rough terrain in University of Michigan electrical engineering professor Jessy Grizzle's lab.

Electronics / Robotics

created May 28, 2010 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (16) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Dinosaurs hop, skip and jump into 21st century

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dinosaurs have literally been put through their paces by a new supercomputer, allowing scientists to get closer to understanding how they once moved.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Early hominid first walked on two legs in the woods

Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the open, grassy ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Bipedal humans came down from the trees, not up from the ground (w/ Video)

A detailed examination of the wrist bones of several primate species challenges the notion that humans evolved their two-legged upright walking style from a knuckle-walking ancestor.

Biology / Evolution

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 9

Mini Dinosaurs Prowled North America (w/Video)

Massive predators like Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex may have been at the top of the food chain, but they were not the only meat-eating dinosaurs to roam North America, according to Canadian researchers w ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 0