Three universities today unveiled highly efficient bipedal walking robots designed to move around without burning up a lot of energy. Built by researchers from Cornell University, the University of Michigan, MIT and Delft University (in the Netherlands), the robots uses leverage, momentum and mechanical dynamics to "stride," which is a radically different approach used by most existing robot bipeds that use large numbers of computer-controlled motors. The MIT robot, called the Toddler" actually adapts and learns as it walks around on uneven ground.
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