Fall 2001 News: M2 and Prof. Gill Pratt have moved to Olin College. Research is continuing. Contact Prof. Pratt for more information on the project.
News: November 2000. A new video has been added the videos page. It includes footage of standing in place under battery power in Washington, DC. It also includes some steps in place taken in the leg lab.
M2 is a 3D bipedal walking robot which is currently being developed in the MIT Leg Laboratory. The robot has 12 active degrees of freedom: 3 in each hip, 1 in each knee, and 2 in each ankle. It will be used to investigate
July 23, 1998: Project schedule complete. |
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![]() Video of testing with 300 pound load, moving at top speeds of 9 inches per second: [Cinepak Quicktime (3.5MB)][Sorenson Quicktime (3.1MB)]
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