[ODE] Natural motion

[Steve Dekorte]

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 05:03 PM, Russ Smith wrote:
>  in particular, i see no evidence that the virtual
> characters react to their environment (i.e. no "AI" at all) - it's 
> telling
> that most of the demos consist of the characters moving to 
> pre-specified
> poses and then falling down.

I thought the same thing. It would be cool to see someone implement the 
ZMP walking algorithm developed by Takanishi at Waseda(and used in the 
Honda Asimo robots) in a virtual humanoid model.

For movies of Asimo walking, see:
http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/movies/

Cheers,
Steve
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