In the last animation the robot extends its legs after being already on the ground.
Failing to see a physic justification for it, I wonder how much of these movements is the result of a predefined "script".
Failing to see a physic justification for it, I wonder how much of these movements is the result of a predefined "script".
As to the question of whether the robot is following a ‘predefined “script”’ (implying, I think, that the developers might have “cheated”) if it were easy to make a “predefined script” that let a robot do this kind of thing, it would have been done years ago. Stability of complex dynamical systems is an incredibly hard problem, and without real active stability control there’s no way to get a thousand pound robot to balance like this. There’s no cheating involved, they simply did the hard things and made them look easy.