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Trevor Blackwell's robot finally walked. Dexter is, as far as we know, the first dynamically balancing biped robot—that is, the first robot that walks like we do. There are of course biped robots that walk. The Honda Asimo is the best known. But the Asimo doesn't balance dynamically. Its walk is preprogrammed; if you had it walk twice across the same space, it would put its feet down in exactly the same place the second time. And of course the floor has to be hard and flat. A dynamically balancing robot