Shadow Biped Walker by David Buckley – 1988 Information sourced from my friend David Buckley's own website here http://davidbuckley.net/DB/ShadBiped.htm. Shadow Walker – Retired in 2002 A two legged human sized pneumatic powered walking robot. Design and building started 1988. Size – 5ft 6inches high, weight about 80lb Operational area:- safety supporting frame 4ft * 8ft * 8ft …
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First-Step by David Buckley September 1987 Four Legged Walking Robot, uses 3-D pantograph arrangement to produce a gravitationally decoupled leg mechanism similar to that used by Shigeo Hirose, A Study of Design and Control of a Quadruped Walking Vehicle, The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol 3, No. 2, 1984. Won a Silver medal …
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See Quester details and other references in David Buckley's website here. Quester was originally designed to be a micromouse maze solver, and later converted into a general purpose robot with added gripper (see above). David also has a reference to the history of Micromouse competitions here. For the original Micromouse competition, "The Amazing MicroMouse Maze …
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