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Robot that walks on 24 oxygen-tubing legs.

submitted by ant

1 decade 4 years 3 months ago

Monica's Icosatetraped: Robot that walks on 24 oxygen-tubing legs.

"In 2005, I built a robot with 24 soft pneumatic legs controlled by a Mac Mini. See the robot walk and watch a slideshow of how I built it. It took about 5 weekends. The robot got two first prizes (best demo and best presentation) at Hackers' Conference in 2005. I am an Artificial Intelligence researcher and CEO of Syntience Inc. ( http://syntience.com ) but this robot has nothing to do with AI whatsoever. It's controlled "open loop" by a C program..."

From http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/01/robot-that-walks-on.html ...

4 Comments

I can think of better things to build with this amount of resources and time , but oh well.

Allso woul dhave though u could have made it with less legs reducing buld time cost and software complexity.

dose look quite cool when it walks , would be way better if it was like 50ft tall

The legs are more like very simple hydraulic muscle than legs. This same type of thing is what will eventually power human augmentation exosuits. Rather than big pistons they will use woven micropiping that flexes and counterflexes just like human physiology.

As for 24 legs, many many legs is how you get a very stable moving platform. Applications besides the obvious like moving space shuttles and delicate buildings around would be mobile buildings, mobile cities, amphibious aicraft carriers, etc.

GoodAttorney says...

It makes a lot of racket.

Moving this video to ant's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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