My Walking Robot Inspiration.. What's yours?

[SaMaDooO]

I had been visualizing myself doing some sort of a spider robot since my first day in the faculty of engineering, but i really don't remember the "roots" of that thought!

When it was time for selecting my graduation project, I saw A LOT of quadrupeds and hexapods, until I saw Matt's hexapod V4b and it was my big inspiration by the way it looks and more importantly the way it moves. And so my hexapod was born



While I was searching that time, I found this video too, see the hexapod at 1:17, you may find it interesting too.

[youtube=nHvaqpcGI1c]Robot fair in osaka japan (2006)[/youtube]

I wonder if there is enough interest in the UK to do a Hexapod "6 legged freaks" meet up? Or would there just be like four of us sat in a room talking crap for a few hours

You might also do this

[youtube=GBl41I2KJqk]Hexapod Race Competition (Part 1) - Hagenberg/Austria[/youtube]

[No1_sonuk]

Better not do physical combat - I have visions of Matt's hex CNCing a "Z" on someone else's bot?

[paulp]

Autonomous Robot Wars...

None of these radio controlled hybrids.

A true robot that has a kill mission. What fun...

What is it they say about the Terminator. "He Just Will Not Stop"

[No1_sonuk]

Making it proper legs, and not putting legged against tracked or wheeled would be a good start.

[Matt Denton]

Oh I agree, there should be no remotes and definitely no wheels, not even wegs!

Well I would be up for some kind of meet, if there was enough interest, however, if people wish to see iC, CNC and a bunch of my other hexapods, then I would have to do this more local to me (South, Hampshire), as its too much gear to heave around.

Of course I have no problem just bringing a couple of hex's along to A.N.Other meet, possibly the one in November?

[Matt Denton]

What happens if you don't have the budget of Plustech!

[youtube=c6JnAQcmRfI][/youtube]

[wattsie]

you get the feeling that somewhere, someone is REALLY proud of his creation, and everyone else round him will pat him on the back with a hearty "well done old chap" but its gotta be said, that was pretty crap! haha!

Its an expensive game this robotics lark...

wattsie

[Matt Denton]

If you were a young teen in the 80's and were into Technical Lego and computers, you may remember THIS! Definitely a bit of my inspiration

[Matt Denton]

Just found a load more pictures and video on the hexapod I posted a picture of at the start of this thread, The Adaptive Suspension Machine, awesome!

[Matt Denton]

I thought I had seen all of the Timberjack Harvester, but I have not seen this video before: