Why Walking Robots are Easy

Go to and help support the channel. They are now running a Black Friday sale, plus 10% off on any purchase with code JAMESBRUTON. Thanks to Established Titles for sponsoring this video! I’ve built quite a few walking robots in the past. If you head right back to the start of my YouTube channel there are quite a few large robots that could just about hobble along made out of wood and driven by windscreen wiper motors and other parts I could get hold of. I built these early in this century in the room of a house share I use to live in, which is why there’s a bed in the corner of the shot. I’ve moved on quite a bit since then to some robot dogs that I’ve built recently, but a few years ago I built some bipedal robots like RobotX and my Walking Gonk Droid. These actually had a sense of balance, using an inertial measurement unit to read how far they were leaning over and make the motors respond accordingly to keep them upright. That can be quite tricky thoug