Clipped from: YouTube - Amazing Insect Inspired Robots of 2009
Amazing Insect Inspired Robots of 2009
Taking inspiration from insects some of the most creative minds in world crafted robots that mimic nature to transform our lives forever. Take a peep into their genius.Clipped from: SPRAWL ROBOTS!!
The "Sprawl" family of hand-sized hexapedal robots are prototypes designed to test ideas about locomotion dynamics, leg design and leg arrangement and to identify areas that can be improved by Shape Deposition Manufacturing.
Sprawl robots are some of the fastest (up to 5 body-lengths per second) and most robust (hip-height obstacles) legged robots out there. They are the result of close collaboration between roboticists, manufacturing engineers and biologists.
Clipped from: YouTube - Stanford Sprawl and iSprawl
Stanford Sprawl and iSprawl
Clipped from: Kod*lab : RHex: Robotic Hexapod
RHex: Robotic Hexapod
The RHex project arose from an earlier DARPA DSO effort initiated within the 1998 CBS/CBBS program called Computational Neuromechanics. In this prior work our team addressed hypotheses about the organization of locomotory control in animals in a mathematically sound and empirically refutable manner while exploring as well the prospects for using MEMS technology to create effectively an electronic harness for insects.
Clipped from: YouTube - CrunchGear.com - RHEX hexapod robot
The RHEX hexapod robot climbing stairs
Clipped from: Case Biorobotics Lab
The robot pictured above is Whegs™ I. It is 20 inches long, and utilizes three-spoke wheel-legs and one drive motor. It can climb obstacles of heights up to 1.5x the wheel-leg radius, and the robot can move up to a speed of 3 body lengths/second (5.5km/hr).
Clipped from: YouTube - Whegs Wheel-Leg Robot
A-pod, an ant inspired hexapod
- A large and a very flexible head, ideal 3 DOF
- Large mandible that can grab around a bottle/can
- A thorax, the main body with a natural shape for all legs and main battery
- A 2 DOF controlled Abdomen (a tail, gaster) holding all electronics
Clipped from: YouTube - A-Pod part 2
Sources:
- YouTube - Amazing Insect Inspired Robots of 2009
- SPRAWL ROBOTS!!
- YouTube - Stanford Sprawl and iSprawl
- Kod*lab : RHex: Robotic Hexapod
- YouTube - CrunchGear.com - RHEX hexapod robot
- Case Biorobotics Lab
- YouTube - Whegs Wheel-Leg Robot
- [Project] A-pod, an ant inspired hexapod - Trossen Robotics Community
- YouTube - A-Pod part 2
Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a new science that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Studying a leaf to invent a better solar cell is an example of this “innovation inspired by nature.”
