1922 – Mechanical Ox (Walking Tractor) – (American)
Source: Popular Science, September 1922
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1977c – Hybrid Walking Cart – I. Lyagusha (Soviet)
The construction of passenger carts walking beam engine of the Soviet inventor I. Lyagusha from Lysychansk (Fig. 1) is programmed more complex trajectory of the 'legs', which is based on t? kzhe is oval. These walking machine with a pre-laid in them the program of the movement "legs" go blind, not adapting to the conditions …
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1961 – Sperry Rand Hybrid Moon Walker – (American)
In the early ‘60s, as part of the preparations for the Apollo manned moon landing mission, the Jet Propulsion Lab planned a follow-on program to its very successful ‘hard’ landing ‘Ranger’ program, which gave the first close-up views of the moon’s surface. The proposed ‘soft’ lander program was called ‘Surveyor’. An initial concept was for …
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