How to Use biped in a Sentence

biped

noun

• Eugenides’s miserable bipeds want to behave well but there are so many obstacles in their way.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
• What’s unique about this research is that it’s intended to be applied to any quadruped at all—with some very minor hardware, your quadruped can become a biped, too.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• But Grizzle and his team are constantly tweaking the biped’s algorithms, then testing it all out in the real world ... that’s sometimes on fire.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
• Sightings of a furry, upright biped and reports of beastly footprints have been reported from as far afield as the Himalayas.
  — Lauren Kent, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2022
• That transition from stable quadruped to confident biped took a long time as new members of the human family tree evolved.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 July 2018
• Some things, like the general shape of our femurs, are the product of generations of evolution, which selected the traits that were most useful for bipeds.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2020
• These usually use a car's onboard camera system and computer vision algorithms to detect bipeds in the field of view.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 Oct. 2019
• Only a few characters recur, but these are essentially the same unlucky bipeds, sometimes glimpsed a few decades later.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• But Boston Dynamics has since that time turned Atlas into a marvel that can do backflips, far outpacing other bipeds that still have a hard time walking.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 17 May 2018
• Or maybe hobbits had descended from Australopithecus afarensis — Lucy’s kin — since that species was a highly adaptable biped that spread over great masses of African land.
  — Jill Neimark, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2011
• Gordon covers details for bipeds, quads, and hexapods (six legs), and misses nothing — balance, degrees of freedom, material, components (kit and hand-built), control, and gait to name a few.
  — James Floyd Kelly, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2011
• Machines like Cassie the biped or SpotMini the robot dog are quickly mastering locomotion, thanks to line after line of meticulous code.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 18 May 2018
• Yet the magazine continues to explore, optimistically, the challenges and discoveries that promise to shape the lives of bipeds, quadrupeds and every other creature on Earth.
  — Ted Scheinman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2020
• Lucy lived over 3 million years ago and her remains helped scientists establish that humans became bipeds, that is, walked upright, much earlier than previously thought.
  — Daniel R. Taylor, Philly.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The juxtaposition — robust muscleman and gawky fowl — is a wonderfully sarcastic rebuke to Plato’s description of humans as featherless bipeds.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
• Science Nothing in robotics is as unintentionally hilarious as watching a biped fall.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018

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