Patent ID: 8327959

Claim:
A walking robot comprising: a trunk; a plurality of legs connected to the trunk; an interlocking actuator, and wherein: at least one leg among the plurality of legs includes a thigh link, a calf link provided at a lower portion of the thigh link, a pitch direction hip joint connecting the trunk and the thigh link and rotating the thigh link against the trunk in a pitch direction, and a knee joint connecting the thigh link and the calf link and rotating the calf link against the thigh link in the pitch direction; and the pitch direction hip joint and the knee joint are interlocked with each other and are driven by the interlocking actuator an independent actuator independently driving the pitch direction hip joint; wherein the interlocking actuator is disposed adjacent to a rotary shaft of the pitch direction hip joint, or is disposed at a position closer to the trunk than the rotary shaft of the pitch direction hip joint.