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		huherto on March 18, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning... Probably the 8 leg design was already tried by nature and it was not successful for large animals.

pchristensen on March 18, 2008 [–]

Whether in nature or manufacture, those legs aren't free. Is four more legs worth the energy required to grow/build them, and could the mental processing power necessary to run them be used better somewhere else?

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