"Dancing mule"

On a more broadly interesting robotty note, here's a dancing mule. It looks like the star is a "Big Dog" from Boston Dynamics, though I prefer the video cut to music to the drier one (warning - 11Mb WMV) on the company's website.

Building the Coat Hanger Walker

Here are a few things I noticed when building the "Coat Hanger Walker" from the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots -- see my last post -- that I think it would have been nice to know in advance. If you're not intending to build one in the near future, you should probably skip this post :-)

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