First look at

    http://others.servebeer.com/temp/stairbot.jpg

to get your mindset right.

Then at

      http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060426p2a00m0na021000c.html

      http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photospecials/graph/photojournal/1.html


Awesome.
Hard to believe that it is 1 leg stable, as the photo seems to 
suggest.
Cables suggest it may not have descended the whole way, but it may 
have.
That man has nerve (even if he is wearing a tie).
[Reminiscent of early Sikorsky photo where he is flying an early 
helicopter while dressed for a day in town.]

Also of interest may be

    http://others.servebeer.com/temp/walkingrobots




Ref: Matthew McMahon 

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