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By Peter Holley Peter Holley Technology reporter Email Bio Follow May 8 at 2:38 PM At first glance, a humanoid robot walking between two platforms across several cinder blocks may look like a simple feat.
[They asked artificial intelligence to create a game. One of its first ideas involved exploding Frisbees.] “Narrow terrain is difficult due to the need to do some ‘cross-over’ steps, which are tricky due to limited range of motion in the hip joint, and also due to having a small polygon of support when one foot is directly in front of the other,” the statement adds.
One of the reasons for that mobility is that the human foot is only about three to four inches wide, Pratt said, whereas a robot on wheels, like a Roomba, for example, is about 13 inches wide. Our relatively small, narrow feet allow us to move around tight obstacles with ease, or step over barriers, all while supporting a higher center of mass that boosts us far off the ground, where we can manipulate the world above .
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