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April 16, 2013

AMBER Lab Head Aaron Ames pictured with two-legged, humanlike robot that can walk among us.

Dr. Aaron Ames and students in the A&M Bipedal Engineering Robotics, or AMBER, Lab are working to make science fiction a reality--two-legged, humanlike robots that can walk among us. AMBER 2.0 (pictured with Ames) is the second robot Ames has built, and exhibits more advanced walking behaviors than its predecessor, AMBER 1.0. The researchers studied human walking and developed a "formal" description of walking, and then applied that description to robots.

Credit: Jim Lyle, TTI Communications

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