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Not content to wait until the entire planet is leveled and paved so their robots can roll around, scientists here report on the latest efforts to provide their machines with capabilities to move in three dimensions. Some discuss cutting edge issues such as advanced design methodologies, complex control algorithms, locomotion concepts, and new actuators. Others deal with implementation problems, support technologies, future applications, and other more practical concerns. The 95 papers explore such topics as from walking to galloping, a design study on light-weight robots with multiple legs, walking with dinosaurs, snake-like locomotion with a minimal mechanism, extending zero-moment point to a segment using a reduced order biped model, researching and developing a pneumatic control for a parallel climbing robot, olfactory search in diffusion fields, a biologically inspired quadruped using pneumatic muscle actuators, and a humanitarian mine detection six-legged walking robot. There is no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
