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Robots cannot yet approach animal performance, and we contend that this lack of ability by robots is a result of lack of scientific understanding of fundamental principles of legged locomotion rather than any technological limitation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe seek to answer these fundamental questions of how legged locomotion works, and to demonstrate discoveries by building robots and implementing principled controllers. We have found that simple controllers of the swing leg during flight can replicate observed behavior from animals, including the prioritization of injury avoidance over a steady gait in uneven terrain. Further, we have shown that a simple stance-phase force control method can explain observed biological features such as apparent leg stiffness changes or energy insertion on dissipative ground. The combination of these straightforward controllers allows a simple model to handle surprisingly variable terrain with no terrain knowledge. 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But why don\u2019t we see such locomotion mechanisms in nature? Or a better question we should ask is: why don\u2019t we use locomotion mechanisms used in nature for creating robots? Animals move in various ways; crawling, walking, jumping, and undulating to name a few. Inspired by biology, when and how should we apply these concepts to create robots with higher mobility? 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Notable examples are personal robotics for the elderly and people with disabilities, as well as autonomous driving systems that can help decrease fatalities caused by traffic accidents. In order to perform tasks such as navigation, recognition, and manipulation of objects, these systems should be able to efficiently extract 3D knowledge of their environment. While a variety of novel sensors have been developed in the past few years, we focus on the extraction of this knowledge from visual information alone. In this talk, I\u0027ll show how Markov random fields provide a great mathematical formalism to extract this knowledge. 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