[Robotgroup] FW: NI News: Researchers Use LabVIEW to Create Fully Autonomous Robot
brooksdesign
brooksdesign at peoplepc.com
Tue Aug 21 21:35:40 PDT 2007
somewhere in all of this is suppose to be a link to a realy cool demo of a biped that can get knocked over on its back and get back up without using its arms but I have not found it yet .sorry for the confusing NI spam .
-brooks
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