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Pedipulator

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-004207

A walking mechanism that gives a robot or vehicle the ability to move on legs, and by extension a machine built with such legs. The term was used for General Electric's 1965 Walking Truck, a four-legged vehicle in which the operator's own arm and leg movements were coupled to hydraulically driven legs. The single prototype weighed about 3,000 pounds and never exceeded 5 miles per hour.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-004207
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectRobotics
TranslationsGerman: Pedipulator; Spanish: pedipulador; French: pédipulateur
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-IND-004207",
  "term": "Pedipulator",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A walking mechanism that gives a robot or vehicle the ability to move on legs, and by extension a machine built with such legs. The term was used for General Electric's 1965 Walking Truck, a four-legged vehicle in which the operator's own arm and leg movements were coupled to hydraulically driven legs. The single prototype weighed about 3,000 pounds and never exceeded 5 miles per hour.",
  "subject": "Robotics",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Pedipulator",
    "es": "pedipulador",
    "fr": "pédipulateur"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/pedipulator/"
}

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