Wednesday, July 20, 2005

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Robotics show Lucy walked upright

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Robotics show Lucy walked upright: "Robotics show Lucy walked upright
Computer generated model of Lucy walking, Royal Society
The robot model shows that Lucy probably walked upright
Australopithecus afarensis, the early human who lived about 3.2 million years ago, walked upright, according to an 'evolutionary robotics' model.

The model, which uses footprints to predict gait, suggests 'Lucy', as the first fossil afarensis was called, walked rather like us."

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