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Re:MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors by smackfu on Monday September 15, 2014 @01:33PM (#8320141)
I think that's mainly because small animals don't generally walk like that when they're going slow.
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Re:MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors by clairity on Monday September 15, 2014 @03:46PM (#8321023)
exactly, animals tend to use the most energetically efficient form of locomotion for a given desired speed (walking vs. running for example). i'm not sure that bounding is more efficient than either walking or galloping at any speed, since more energy seems to go into vertical and rotational motion than those more common forms of locomotion.
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