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Bruce Sterling
Nov 3, 2015 12:45 AM

Showtime: Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures

*I'd seen pieces of this demo before, but never the whole shebang. The biomimicry here is good enough to arouse some odd feelings.

Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures from John Goatstream on Vimeo.

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