Robot with Tail always lands on its wheels

[fridgid]

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/robot-lands-like-cat/

Thought this was pretty awesome

[Gertlex]

I went looking for papers by that research group. Particularly interesting was one from 2004 where they talk about how they did optimization of the movement of the rotating six legged platform. http://kodlab.seas.upenn.edu/Main/AutomatedGaitAdaptationForLeggedRobots