Category: LEGGED ROBOTS

Mantis - Two Tonne Turbo Diesel Hexapod Walking Machine

Mantis – Giant Hexapod Walking Machine 31029

After four years intensive R&D, inspiration, design and build, Micromagic Systems is proud to unveil Mantis — the biggest, all-terrain operational hexapod robot in the world.  This 2.2-litre Turbo Diesel-powered, British-designed and -built walking machine can be piloted or remote WiFi-controlled, stands 2.8 metres high with a five meter working envelope and weighing in at just under two tonnes.

Passive Walking Robot Propelled By Its Own Weight #DigInfo

Simple Mechanical Robotic Leg Design – 11057

This robotic leg design is usefull for people who finds it hard to walk by himself. This robot is walking without a source of energy (of course it takes power from it’s potential energy) It doesn’t use any kind of motor or control. It is made of aluminum and it contains only mechanical components. The robot has three main parts, upper leg, lower leg and ankles.

Asterisk - Omni-directional Insect Robot Picks Up Prey #DigInfo

Kenichi Ohara – Asterisk – Best Hexapod Design 2013 – 11049

The problem with Hexapod designs they are really slow in walking when compared to wheeled systems. But this design of hexapod has reached a level that it can use wheels, and advantages of a spider like hexapod. It can climb, and it can use it’s arms to take toys, it can crawl or it can pass through really narrow space. Hexapod Robots should have these kind of designs. 

DASH: Resilient High-Speed 16-gram Hexapedal Robot

DASH: Resilient High-Speed 16-gram Hexapedal Robot – 11043

DASH (Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod) is a resilient high-speed 16-gram hexapedal robot. Developed by P. Birkmeyer & R.S. Fearing, Biomimetic Millisystems Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. Video presented at IEEE IROS 2009. The Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod, aptly abbreviated DASH, really moves. It’s a high-speed six-legged runner that can be built in an hour using basically cardboard and polymer sheets for its frame.