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• n  an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking
• a  having four feet

• In 1928 an Indian government expert visited the Andamans and decided that what the islands needed was a properly decorative quadruped.
• Any pussyfooted quadruped will be shot on sight if it is muzzleless.
• A quadruped's points, the tying of a stock, the imminence of frost, the perfect groom these things he records with charm and with leisurely humor.

• quadrupedal
• four-footed

• bipedal
• biped

News & Articles

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• Cat-like Robot Runs Like the Wind
  DeviceGuru writes "Researchers at the Biorob lab at Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), have announced a cat-like robot that is claimed to be the fastest quadruped robot under 30 kilograms. The Cheetah-cub Robot, which runs real-time Xenomai Linux on an x86-based RoBoard robot control board, mimics the biomechanics of a cat to increase the speed and stability of it ...
  June 19, 2013 - Slashdot

Quotes

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• Gábor Horváth in CBC.ca
  This was quite unexpected, because the experts of animal locomotion have known well the characteristics of quadruped walking ever since the famous and pioneering work of Eadweard Muybridge, published in the 1880s,lead researcher Gabor Horvath...
• Grant Imahara in Business Wire (press release)
  ChemBot is a sophisticated design that parallels what we see in law enforcement, military, and emergency response applications, and the Quadruped Dinosaur demonstrates the designers' considerable potential for simulating natural movement,said...