Walking

Legged locomotion with at least one leg always in contact with the ground (no flight phase). Walking is statically stable at low speed and dynamically controlled at higher speed. Human-like walking uses an inverted pendulum model for CoM motion. Bipedal walking is the primary locomotion mode for humanoid robots intended to operate in human environments.

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