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February 18, 2005
Robots Walk Like Humans
Researchers from Cornell University, the University of Delft, and MIT demonstrated bipedal robots that walk in a human-like manner.
Like Asimo (from Honda) and Qrio (from Sony), these robots have names: Cornell from Cornell, Denise from Delft, Toddler from MIT.
"Toddler is the smart one of the bunch. While the others rely on superb mechanical design, Toddler has a brain with less power than that of an ant, but it is able to learn new terrain, "allowing the robot to teach itself to walk in less than 20 minutes, or about 600 steps," scientists said."
[1] Robert Roy Britt and Tariq Malik, New Robots Walk Like Humans, LiveScience.Com, 17 February, 2004.