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Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft has developed a new, highly-advanced walking robot: Flame. This type of research, for which Hobbelen will receive his PhD on Friday 30 May, is important as it provides insight into how people walk. This can in turn help people with walking difficulties through improved diagnoses, training and rehabilitation equipment.

TU Delft is a pioneer of the other method used for constructing walking robots, based on the way humans walk. This is really very similar to falling forward in a controlled fashion. Adopting this method replaces the cautious, rigid way in which robots walk with the more fluid, energy-efficient movement used by humans.

PhD student Daan Hobbelen has demonstrated for the first time that a robot can be both energy-efficient and highly stable. His breakthrough came in inventing a suitable method for measuring the stability of the way people walk for the first time. This is remarkable, as 'falling forward' is traditionally viewed as an unstable movement.

Modelling the walking process allows researchers to construct two-legged robots which walk more naturally. More insight into the walking process can in turn help people with walking difficulties, for example through improved diagnoses, training and rehabilitation equipment. TU Delft is working on this together with motion scientists at VU University Amsterdam.

Hobbelen cites ankles as an example. These joints are a type of spring which can be used to define the best level of elasticity. Research conducted by Hobbelen into Flame's ankles has provided motion scientists with more insight into this topic.

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[BrightArse]

if only all of the robot making nations of the world unite to combine their bright ideas, there would be a REALLY REALLY GOOD useful robot!

[MrQwaazga]

I wish we were made obedient by our own personal 'bots right now.

"Behave, or die human!"

[umnicopitec]

This is 2007! How is it today?

[maikeru01]

it walks like a little kid kicking dirt. putting too much force into picking the leg up and not enough into putting it down.

[andy7925]

johny 5

[afromanz87]

can that thing stop?

[Stereotuna]

Surely it ought to have arms, for balance.. then you could design one that could turn..

[pinkafide]

heh.....im not sure I like the Idea of robots, I guess IRobot Ruined my likeing of the idea

[Draxius]

put a zombie costume on it lol arms stretched forward LOL!!!

[bjeah]

Very nice, but can it stop?