This reminded me of a recent paper on automatically designing animated mechanical characters. Some of these movements could be used to incorporate different kin

This reminded me of a recent paper on automatically designing animated mechanical characters. Some of these movements could be used to incorporate different kinds of animations into these characters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfznnKUwywQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfznnKUwywQ