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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The Trojan Cockroach, also called the Walking Robot, was a project overseen by Ivan Sutherland during a brief professional tenure at Carnegie Mellon in the early 1980s. Although Sutherland is more well-known for his innovations in computer graphics, he was also interested in robotics and began working with Marc Raibert, the head of the Leg Lab at CMU and later MIT. Sutherland, as part of his company Sutherland, Sproulll, and Associates, worked with CMU students to develop a six-legged...