Engineer Dennis Hun together with colleagues from Virginia Polytechnic Institute have created three-legged robot STriDER which shows rather strange way of movement.

The unique robot to the maximum uses gravitation to do each step, spending minimum electricity and demanding minimum of “brains� to control the movement.

Developers inform, that the robot cannot go precisely on a straight line, it has dog-leg path. Though externally this robot is like nothing on earth, STriDER’s gait is closer to a gait of the person, than walking of the majority biped humanoid robots which exist today “, - says Hun.

According to founders’ intention, STriDER can be useful for installation of camera networks or sensors, and also it can independently carry out a role of the explorer.

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