Yeah, it's "pre-damage" gait looks really stiff. As if it's been pre-programmed, but not been subject to whatever learning algorthims the researchers have given it to "recover" with.

I think I'd like to see the robot move, after those algorithms have had a chance to improve it's initial non-damaged gait.

It looks like they did try that, and it moved faster:

> “When the robot is undamaged, our approach yields dynamic gaits that are 30% faster than the classic reference gait,” say Cully and co.

However, there don't appear to be videos of that.