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A four-legged robot hints at how ancient tetrapods walked

Orobates pabsti may have had a more developed gait that previously thought

tetrapod robot

ROAMING BOT  Researchers designed a robot called OroBOT to re-create and analyze different gaits that Orobates pabsti, a four-legged creature that lived about 290 million years ago, might have used.

Tomislav Horvat and K. Melo/EPFL Lausanne

By Carolyn Gramling

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