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Re:JL: Why I Do YC by ivankirigin on Saturday July 05, 2008 @11:24PM (#237555)
He is definitely very far advanced, but academics still make very good walking robots. http://www.msl.ri.cmu.edu/projects/actuator/ http://www.rhex.net/

Some other efforts that come to mind help illustrate the territory. Honda made a horribly unscalable walking mechanism in the ASIMO. It will never be more than PR. The best work from CMU & MIT's Leg Lab got spun out into Boston Dynamics. You've probably seen their "big dog" video. http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog

Boston Dynamics is part boutique research firm and part startup. They'll probably be the first to sell a walking robot.

Honda makes a clunker, and the hungry, small companies make something that will actually work.

Re:JL: Why I Do YC by dbrush on Sunday July 06, 2008 @04:35AM (#237705)
I read a recent Popular Science article where it says Trevor helped with the unicycle motorcycle. This article here is essentially what it said in the Popular Science article; so it seems Trevor is quite the go-to guy when it comes to these types of things.

http://www.motorcyclemojo.com/articles/the-uno/

* Not disagreeing, just supplementing