Kenichi Ohara – Asterisk – Best Hexapod Design 2013 – 11049

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Developers Profile – Kenichi Ohara – Osaka University – Limb Mechanism Robot

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. 

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