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Message #08368
To: "'beam@sgiblab.sgi.com'" beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Wilf Rigter Wilf.Rigter@powertech.bc.ca
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 09:27:27 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Bi ped
Correct me if I'm wrong but in this bot, as in bipeds like birds, the leg
geometry is quite different from a human leg. The bot's "knee" flexes the
"wrong" way because the knee joint is really the ankle joint and the ankle
is equal to the toe joint. Aside from coolness, what is the advantage? For
fun play the MOV in reverse and now tell me if that doesn't look more human.
wilf
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian [SMTP:Ian@beam-online.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 11:00 PM
> To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: Bi ped
>
> Hey, About the design idea I had about keeping the foot strait seems to be
> employed in this walker....
>
> http://www.aist.go.jp/MEL/soshiki/robot/undo/kajita/biped-e.html
>
> More on my idea is in an earlier email.
>
> Laterz
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8369 Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:29:49 -0500 [alt-beam] Re: Solarbotics Miller Engines beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Bob Shannon Jean auBois wrote:
> Uh, Dave, you can only license _patented_ electronic circuits, at least as
> far as the US court system is concerned. Andrew doesn't have a
> patent. Ergo, any attempt to enforce your license will certainly fail
> unless he obtains such a patent which is unlikely at this late a date.
>
> If he does have a patent, then you'll certainly have a basis on which to
> take people to court if they use the circuit whether privately or
> commercially. I rather doubt, however, that you'd obtain anything better
> than a Pyrrhic victory.
>
> Zoz
Uhhh, he cannot get a patent in the US now, its already been disclosed
by Dave's posting.
Maybe the I.P. laws are different in Canada, but there can be no legal
protection for
this circuit in the U.S. at this point.
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