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LEARNING TO WALK 39
Walking is a pendulum-like motion, and back in the 1950s,
famed computer scientist Claude Shannon, Robert Cannon, and the
latter’s graduate students at Stanford University experimented with
These drawings show how Marc Raibert and his team identified the elements in
a kangaroo’s hopping gait and determined the location of the center of mass.
