Land Walker
Jan 25 2007, Jolly

A Japanese Engineer named Masaaki Nagumo has developed a real life Land Walker.

You must have seen such devices bearing a name APU in Hollywood’s Sci-Fi movie, The Matrix. This is 3.4-meter tall, two-legged robot and has been named Land Walker by...

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