Re: ROBOT IGUANODON, Penarth addendum

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

Lego has made full-sized giraffes (in THE COMPLETE LEGO BOOK).  However
it is unlikely the Euro_Robo_Dino is regular LEGO(tm) if it's
articulated in any way.  The robotic Llego rarely uses the regular
snap-together pieces (weight problems).

I had sent out this newsclip bit back in November about the
Euro-Robo-Dinos:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/991125/18/bqjr.html

-Betty

Adrian Thomas wrote:
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> >From: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
> >
> >At the library have just seen the December '99 ish of _Journal of
> >Experimental Biology_ (Vol. 202). The front cover features a colour
> >illustration of a bipedal robotic _Iguanodon atherfieldensis_ made
> >out of lego. Actually, I'm not sure it's lego but it sure looks like
> >it. For some bizarre reason there is what looks like an egg on the
> >ground between the robot's legs. This doesn't relate to any paper in
> >the issue but the inside cover has the caption:
> >
> Its unlikely to be lego given that it is full size. There was footage of it
> at the McNeill-Alexander fest that that issue of JExpBiol reports. Its
> intended to end up as an interactive, mobile, free-standing museum exhibit.
> The egg is (I think) an illustration of the region above which the centre of
> gravity has to fall for bipedal static stability. Could be wrong though.
> Could be an egg.


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