Air Powered Puppybot Based On Greyhound
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 2 of April , 2009 at 3:03 am
This cute little doggie hails from Case Western Reserve University. His name is Puppy. Puppy is based (loosely based) on a greyhound, as far as joint range of motion data and skeletal dimensions are concerned. He’s designed to give researchers a practical testbed with which to study the effects of body style on locomotion.
Unlike BigDog, Puppy is powered by compressed air, and all of his limbs run on Festo compressed air muscles. Remember Festo? Puppy is really just a little guy at 22 pounds, but he’s able to lift twice that. Also unlike BigDog, Puppy doesn’t really have any autonomous capabilities, and remains tethered to an air supply and a computer where his brain lives.
I wish I could find a video, or a project website, so if anyone is able to dig anything else up, leave the info in the comments for everyone else to check out.
[ Case Western ] VIA [ IEEE ]
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Category: Biorobotics,Research
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Could this be what you are looking for?
http://biorobots.cwru.edu/publications/BioRob06_Aschenbeck_QuadrupedRobot.pdf
(~7 mb big, could take a while to load)
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