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Letter: Mechanical mate

Published 11 March 2015

While the researchers admit that balancing on unstable terrain is especially challenging for bipedal robots, the goal is to create a robot capable of working alongside sailors. Such a robot must therefore be designed to have similar agility to humans.

Issue no. 3012 published 14 March 2015

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