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Air Muscles Help Robot Walk
Shadow Robot Co. Ltd. (+44 207-700-2487). of London have created a prototype
bipedal robot, the Shadow Walker. In the future, the robot could evolve into
a domestic android capable of overcoming an important design problem -
climbing stairs. Providing the robot with human-like locomotive structures
ensures its operation in any human environment.  

http://www.rdmag.com/international/0009uk_ino.htm
http://www.shadow.org.uk/index.shtml
Photograph of legs and torso airmuscles 




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