Adapting Existing Knowledge to the Purpose of Walking

You will have created a design for the hardware of your new robot, its legs with their levers, joints, tendons and motors. It's body which will hold the power supply its sense organs through which it will receive feedback that wil allow it to control those limbs effectively. You will have adapted everything in that design as best you can, to the purpose of walking, except the programm in the computer. Once you have automated everything that you know how to automate, you have no choice but to resort to some sort of trial and error to achieve any additional functionality. That method will require ever less inspiration and evermore perspiration. But an alternative approach is also open to you by using a