ABSTRACT
The robot can be built by constructing legs, arms, and torso, then attaching them together. The Bigfoot robot is a two-legged walking robot, which uses two servomotors to accomplish its walking motion. In a static gait, robots keep their center of gravity on the base of the robot so that the robot does not fall if kept in that position. The dynamic gait is a walking or a running pattern where the stability of the robot is accomplished by the momentum of the robot. The program that comes with the robot can be modified to make the robot perform different actions from the pre-programmed actions. The robot is controlled by the Basic Stamp microcontroller from Parallax Inc. The chapter describes biped robots: their construction and control. The Lynxmotion biped uses four servomotors per leg, three servomotors per arm, five servomotors for the torso, and if hands are needed two more servomotors per hand.
