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 Robots Take To The Stairs - This Is Just The Beginning

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Date posted: 07/05/2009

Robots can climb stairs, and they are doing it everywhere you look. ?No big deal? you say, but it really is a big deal. Five to ten years ago almost nobody was doing it. Now grad students are doing it all by themselves for thesis projects.

Stair climbing may not seem like it is that hard, but it really is hard, especially if you don?t take the easy way out by using a tracked system. Stair climbing only looks easy because we are building on the knowledge that those before us have so painstakingly accumulated. This is a common theme with technological advancement: things that once seemed hard (and really were hard!) often appear easy once we figure out how to do them and they become commonplace.

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