Video Friday: LEMUR IIa Autonomous Maintenance Robot
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 6 of March , 2009 at 8:20 am
LEMUR (Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utility Robot) was developed by JPL in 2005 to inspect and perform maintenance on structures in space. It has six legs, each with four degrees of freedom, but the cool part is that each leg has a connector on it that can accommodate a variety of modular tools, like lights or drills or video cameras. Additionally, the primary stereo vision system is mounted on a track around the perimeter of the robot’s body, so instead of rotating the whole robot, the “head” can just move around the track while the robot translates itself. It can even operate upside-down. Not bad, not bad at all… But can it dance?
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