Posted on 10/11/2018 6:42:59 AM PDT by C19fan
Making a one-legged robot that moves is very hard. Two-legged robots are a little bit more straightforward in some ways, and four-legged robots are statically stable much of the time. You can see where this is goingtheres a general trend toward more legs being more stable and potentially easier to control, especially as terrain complexity increases. So what happens if you take that logic to an extreme? As it turns out, you end up with a spherical robot made of 32 individually actuated telescoping legs, named Mochibot.
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I, for one, welcome our new overlords.
Can it handle a point blank blast from a 12 gauge?
Didnt think so.
Not completely, but it will kick ass with the other 28 feet.
Now they need to find a way to do it while keeping the center steady while it is crawling. That way your “eyes” will remain steady.
One step at a time—pun intended.
Every thirty minutes or so, a lab worker has to give it a fresh LiPo food vacuole.
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