Robot Rumors: The Troodasaur robot from WowWee
The only hint we have on what the Troodasaur may be is this web page from MIT LegLab. This page shows Troody, the experimental walking robot that was created to try and recreate the walking gait of an extinct dinosaur for research purposes. The dinosaur they modeled was a small carnivorous creature from the Cretaceous era called the Troodon. What is interesting is that in one of the Flytech Dragonfly videos, you can clearly see what looks to be a giant Roboraptor in the room.
Is the giant Roboraptor merely an oversized model of that robot or if we could see it move, would it show us a realistic dinosaur gait that would amaze us? Perhaps we will learn more at the Consumer Electronics show next January 8th through 11th, 2007.
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