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Investigations of Mechanical Ambulation

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco
13 March 1998

This was an early experiment on a new one legged walking machine.  It appeared at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Near Future event sponsored by the Blasthaus.  This was part of the opening event for the New Robotic Sculptures show at  Yerba Buena.  The walking device had only recently began operation and was run at 1/3 power at this event.  The walker interacted with people for over an hour.

Currently we are increasing the power, adding pre-programmed gaits, and designing a wearable human interface.  Expect this device to make an appearance soon.

Video Clips:

Simple walk and turn
(Quicktime / 1.2M)

Rearing itself
(Quicktime / 1.8M)

Shuffling around
(Quicktime / 2.7M)

Righting itself
(Quicktime / 1.1M)

 

Eric Paulos / admin@eiu.org