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outrunner

[ out-ruhn-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that runs ahead or outside.
  2. an attendant who runs before or beside a carriage.
  3. the leader of a team of dogs.
  4. a forerunner.


outrunner

/ ˈ²¹ÊŠ³ÙËŒ°ùÊŒ²ÔÉ™ /

noun

  1. an attendant who runs in front of a carriage, etc
  2. the leading dog in a sled team
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of outrunner1

First recorded in 1590–1600; out- + runner
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OutRunner The spiky-wheeled land cruiser, based on an unfunded Kickstarter project by former Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition scientists, can hit speeds of up to 20 miles per hour.

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OutRunner will come in two models: core and performance, Cotton said.

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OutRunner runs by rotating both sets of legs in time so that as a foot on one side is lifted, the one on the other is planted, much like how humans and many animals run.

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Though not yet commercially available, OutRunner has been featured online by Stuff magazine, Gizmag and the United Kingdom’s Daily Mail, among other publications.

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Cotton said he and his team have been working on OutRunner for about the past year and that he got the idea for the running robot after working on a bipedal robot project called FastRunner for the IHMC.

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