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Blind Man Walking

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 - 16:02:19 - Ehud Rattner

A man with brain damage that makes him clinically blind can navigate an obstacle course, seemingly by using a primitive part of his brain to perceive...

Skyscraper Run-Ups

Sunday, July 13th, 2008 - 10:53:42 - Ehud Rattner

Scientists have recently become interested in the biomechanics of a very unusual activity: skyscraper run-ups. Competitors in this extreme sport...

Flame – Revolutionary Walking Robot
Friday, June 6th, 2008 - Noa Rotkop
Daan Hobbelen, a PhD student at TU Delft in the Netherlands, has developed a revolutionary walking robot named Flame. Based...

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Did Walking On Two Feet Begin With A Shuffle

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 - 15:23:03 - Ehud Rattner

Somewhere in the murky past, between four and seven million years ago, a hungry common ancestor of today's primates, including humans, did something...

Robot Sets a Record for Walking Distance

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 - 15:15:30 - Ehud Rattner

Cornell Ranger robot has recently set an unofficial world record by walking nonstop for 45 laps - a little over 9 kilometers or 5.6 miles - around...

Running is Better than Walking on the Moon

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 - 10:04:39 - Iddo Genuth

Future astronauts should run, not walk, across the lunar surface to conserve energy, new laboratory tests suggest. The tests were done using an...

Sensitive Floor
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 - Iddo Genuth
Sensitive Floor - is an interactive video floor projection that reacts to the way people walk on it.