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Walking vehicle

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A walking vehicle is a vehicle that moves on legs rather than wheels or tracks. [1]

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Animatronics

Animatronics refers to the use of robotic devices to emulate a human or an animal, or bring lifelike characteristics to an otherwise inanimate object.

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Big Muskie

Big Muskie was a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline excavator owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company (formerly a division of American Electric Power), weighing and standing nearly 22 stories tall.

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BigDog

BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped military robot created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster-Miller, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station.

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Continuous track

Continuous track, also called tank tread or caterpillar track, is a system of vehicle propulsion in which a continuous band of treads or track plates is driven by two or more wheels.

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Dragline excavator

A dragline excavator is a piece of heavy equipment used in civil engineering and surface mining.

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Dragon

A dragon is a large, serpent-like legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures around the world.

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Furth im Wald

Furth im Wald is a town in the District of Cham, in Bavaria, Germany, near the Czech border.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Hexapod (robotics)

A six-legged walking robot should not be confused with a Stewart platform, a kind of parallel manipulator used in robotics applications.

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John Deere

John Deere is the brand name of Deere & Company, an American corporation that manufactures agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery, diesel engines, drivetrains (axles, transmissions, gearboxes) used in heavy equipment, and lawn care equipment.

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Mass production

Mass production, also known as flow production or continuous production, is the production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines.

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Mecha

The term may refer to both scientific ideas and science fiction genres that center on giant robots or machines controlled by people.

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Quadrupedalism

Quadrupedalism or pronograde posture is a form of terrestrial locomotion in animals using four limbs or legs.

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Theo Jansen

Theodorus Gerardus Jozef "Theo" Jansen (born 14 March 1948) is a Dutch artist.

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Timberjack

Timberjack is a manufacturer of forestry machinery for both cut-to-length and whole tree logging, and was a subsidiary of John Deere from 2000 to 2006.

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Unipedalism

The term uniped (from Latin uni.

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Walking truck

The walking truck (cybernetic walking machine) was an experimental quadruped robot made by General Electric in 1965.

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Redirects here:

Legged vehicle, Walker (machine), Walking machine.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_vehicle

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