mimicking the articulation of the human leg. To control the robot’s movements, [Technovation] uses inverse kinematics, a method of calculating join movements rather than explicitly programming them.

This results in directional stiffness at the leg’s end effector ... optimized in the robot’s design to mimic biological movement. Inverse kinematics (IK) tracking of dog motions confirms ...

Building a robotic dog that will walk around the house is one of the hardest engineering challenges out there. You’ve got fairly crazy kinematics, you’ll need to think about the strength of ...