Sentences with phrase «littledog quadruped»

It's been a remarkable run for the company — in just four years it has quadruped its top - line sales, while shares are trading at a record high of about $ 53.

Over the next four and a half years, Farr nearly quadruped Emerson's Asia revenues.

He who through greatness hath become sole monarch Of all the moving world that breathes and slumbers; Who ruleth over quadrupeds and bipeds, — Who is the god to worship with oblation?

You see these quadrupeds, your brothers; Comparing, then, yourself with others, Are you well satisfied?»

It goes on to say under the entry for «rhinoceros» that: «a genus of quadrupeds of two species, one of which, the unicorn, has a single horn growing almost erect from the nose.

They skin and paunch all sorts of quadrupeds; they draw and pluck their fowl; but their fish they dress with their scales on, without gutting; but in eating they leave the scales, entrails and bones to be thrown away.

A rodent wanted to join his fellow quadrupeds for the big match, but they rebuffed him because he was small and scrawny.

This is a great intro to assuming the hands - and - knees position because it's easier to sustain a semi-upright quadruped position than it is a fully horizontal one.

This is a great introduction to assuming the hands and knees position of quadruped, because it is easier to sustain a semi-upright quadruped position that it is a fully horizontal one.

Hrdlička presumably would have argued that they were reverting to «an atavistic nature,» and the Turkish scientists did too: They contended that the siblings were a case of «reverse evolution,» a missing link to our quadruped past.

Paleontologists also realized the animals were not dedicated quadrupeds.

Of the 39 prehistoric paintings of horses, bulls, elephants and other quadrupeds the researchers examined, fewer than half were erroneous.

Other features hinted that the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees was a quadruped and not a knuckle - walking ape, as was long thought.

Thwaites practiced becoming a quadruped at a prosthetics clinic.

1968: GE Quadruped Transporter The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contracted General Electric in 1968 to build the Quadruped Transporter, known as the Walking Truck or the Giant Elephant.

In the simulation, each Roombot alters its pattern of movement randomly every few seconds and assesses how those changes affect the quadruped's overall velocity.

David Johan Christensen at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, and colleagues, simulated a quadruped robot constructed from a dozen Roombots — identical rounded robots that can combine to form a variety of shapes (see picture).

They came up with a simple mathematical model, published today in Biology Letters, to see how fast a quadruped could accelerate without tipping over backward.

This robot is the fastest in its category, namely in normalized speed for small quadruped robots under 30Kg.

Developed by EPFL's Biorobotics Laboratory (Biorob), the «cheetah - cub robot,» a small - size quadruped prototype robot, is described in an article appearing today in the International Journal of Robotics Research.

Boston Dynamics, which is now part of Google, built Spot for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as proof they could create a nimbler, quieter version of the company's previous quadrupeds.

Outside of buying more aerial drones, quadrupeds are the Pentagon's best bet for upgrading their robot fleet, at least for now.

«Look at a gazelle — all of its software is in its brain,» says James Kuffner, an associate professor at C.M.U.'s Robotics Institute, one of six teams of robotics researchers (along with the Florida University System's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, M.I.T., Stanford University, the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania) that DARPA asked to improve on the same basic LittleDog quadruped robot platform, built for them by Boston Dynamics.

A handful of other robotics researchers — including those at Japan's Kyoto Institute of Technology — have over the past decade been developing quadruped robots, but none appear to have BigDog's high levels of adaptability, balance and perseverance nor LittleDog's intelligence and awareness.

When people build robots, whether it is a humanoid, a quadruped or a fish, they tend to create very complex mechanisms, and this complexity often works against them by creating multiple points of potential failure, Valdivia y Alvarado says.

Within the next three years, the U.S. military will test the feasibility of sending a quadruped robot out into the field as a trusty pack mule to carry supplies for its troops, wherever they go.

The new quadruped will have «a higher level of maturity in terms of system and autonomous operation,» Raibert says.

The researchers hope to use the robot to study the biomechanics of animal locomotion and eventually to come up with quadruped robots that can be used in search and rescue operations.

For its size — 23 centimeters long and 1 kilogram in weight — it may be a record - holder among other robo - quadrupeds, its developers say, attaining speeds seven times its body length per second.

(Expectant quadrupeds can resort to their hands for balance.)

The rock shelter has seen phases of human activity from the Mesolithic to the medieval period, with its prehistoric rock paintings known to be the highest painted representations of animals (quadrupeds) in Europe.

«I think the overall membrane dynamics he's looking at are very good,» says Michael Habib, a pterosaur expert at Chatham University who co-developed the quadruped launch theory for pterosaur take - off.

Led by George Whitesides, a renowned Harvard chemist and materials scientist as well as member of Scientific American's Board of Advisers, the group's best - known robot is a squishy X-shaped quadruped made from elastomers — stretchy plastics — and controlled by pumping compressed air through its network of internal channels.

The current quadruped robot prototype is tethered to an open source board and an air pump.

He does not exercise a long - backed or a long - legged quadruped in any particular manner.

A comparison of prehistoric and more recent art reveals that early humans had a better grasp of quadruped locomotion.

Most quadrupeds push with their back legs and use their front legs as brakes.

And it showed that the giant animals used their legs in a surprising way, a way unlike that used by most other four - legged animals, or quadrupeds.

Poramate Manoonpong, Dennis Goldschmidt, Florentin Wörgötter, Alexander Kovalev, Lars Heepe, Stanislav Gorb Motor Control Adaptation to Changes in Robot Body Dynamics for a Compliant Quadruped Robot.

To analyse walking illustrations of all possible quadruped species we used the easy and reliable method developed by Horvath and co-workers [18], [19].

These easy to use exercise checklists will cover all the basic postures and positions (prone, supine, quadruped, tall - kneeling, and half - kneeling) so that you can print them off and carry them with you.

The «quadruped», better known as «on all fours,» is a position / movement we lose as we age.

On the other hand, a flawlessly executed quadruped row promotes optimal depression, retraction and medial rotation of the scapula, improves arm and grip mechanics and spinal rigidity, and teaches strong muscle - mind connection with the lats.

A1: Push Ups (Push) A2: Air Squats (Quad / Hip) A3: Russian Twist (Twist) A4: Inverted Row (Pull) A5: Mountain Jumper (Quadruped) A6: Jog

'' four exercises, lunges, quadruped hip extension, four - way hip extension, and lunges, were as effective as squats» You have listed lunges twice.

What made you move past the basic bodyweight stuff and start moving like an quadruped?

Quadruped hip extensions are another type of kickbacks workout and known to be the best workout for glutes.

It can be performed on the Quadruped hip extension machine or you can get yourself the best glute band to perform cable kickbacks with bands.

Start off in quadruped (on your hands and knees) and lower your forearms to floor, interlacing your fingers.

The quadruped hip extensions, step - ups, and lunges generated significantly more muscle activation than squats.