Walker (BEAM)

In BEAM robotics, a walker is a walking machine that has a driven mode of locomotion by intermittent ground-contacting legs. They usually possess 1 to 12 (generally, three or less) motors. "Muscle wired" walkers utilizes Nitinol (nickel - titanium alloy) for its actuators.

BEAM walking robots contain Nv networks, which consist of NV neurons each of which is a very simple oscillator setup. The most common form of BEAM walker is the master slave Bicore, which uses two suspended Bicore arrangements.

A BEAM walker does not use a processor, nor is it programmed in any way—it walks and responds to terrain via resistive input from its motors. This is an extremely clever method for creating locomotion.