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Two Legs
Bigfoot Bipedal Walker Kit   From the Mondo-Tronics Robot Store. The kit includes bumper wires on the feet.

Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Club   Click on Biped to view a completed robot that walked but was too slow. Find out why.

Kameleon Biped   This is an early picture of a biped built with a Kameleon microcontroller using worm-drive motors. Not shown is the counter-balance weight that swings from side to side as it moves.

Koji's Mobile Robots   A biped inspired by the Honda humanoid. Includes movies.

Lego Mindstorms   The computerized Lego kit.

Sony SDR-3X   A small biped walking robot.

Stampy   and   Mrs Stampy.   Entrants into the Trinity College home robot fire fighting contest. Mrs Stampy includes video clips.

University of Western Australia, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering   The EyeBot Android.

V-3   A bipedal robot that attempts to mimic the mobility of human legs. Accelerometers are used to maintain balance.

Four Legs
AIBO   The Sony entertainment robot site.

AIBOPet's Hack Site   How to hack Sony's AIBO and AIBO Puppy and Tiger Toys' I-Cybie.

e-Stalker   Follow this hobbyist's attempt to build a pneumatic dog-like robot.

Lotus I   Sparky's first BEAM robot using two motors.

Lynxmotion Quadrapod Kit   Selected components or the entire kit can be purchased.

Nervous Network-Based Walking Robot   A home-made small robot with diagrams.

Petzi   An attempt to build a robot "pet". The description of the stages of building and experimentation provides a flavor of what robot construction is really like.

Robot Books   See the Robot Dogs page.

Tiger Toys   I-Cybie, the answer to AIBO, and the Robo-Chi series that includes Poo-Chi and Meow-Chi.

Unknown Walking Robot   Is this the predecessor to AIBO?

Six Legs
Cricket   A small servo-driven robot with plans, a parts list, and parts sources.

Frank Scott's Hexapod Robots   Instructions for building robots named Rodney.

Gokiburi   Drawings and information on controlling the servos are provided.

I.R. Bot   A neural network controlled robot.

ITSY   An EE student project.

Lynxmotion Hexapod Kits   Several models at various price levels, and selected components or entire kits can be purchased.

Mr. Robot   Look for the RoboBug kit.

RobotiKits Direct   Check out the Spider and the Moon Walker kits.

Stiquito   The book that comes with a simple robot kit and an IEEE online book supplement for advanced projects. The robot uses "muscle" wires instead of motors.

Thomas Burg Hexapod   A neural network controlled robot.

Eight Legs
Spider   A small light-weight desktop robot using only two motors.


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