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SILF front position
Katshuhisa (one guy) has built a small robot similar to the Sony SDR or Fujitsu HOAP robot with remarkable flexibility - it can even jump! Not exactly a plyojump, but it is getting there. 

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SILF walking SILF standing
This agile robot is battery-powered and has quite the bang for the buck. Not surprisingly, it won a prize at Robocup 2003. This is the latest robot by Ito, who began creating SILF robots over a decade ago. Check out the following link at http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/~itou/index.html for an "evolutionary tree." A small camera forms the head.

"There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This would be if every machine could work by itself, at the word of command or by intelligent anticipation."
- Aristotle, from his justification of slavery in Politics