Video Friday: Stanford SprawlBots
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 17 of April , 2009 at 2:30 am
Here’s something old but cool that I ran across… These are a series of robots called Sprawl robots, from Stanford back between 2001ish and 2004ish. Sprawl robots were designed to test out hybrid foot/leg designs, and they utilized a hexapod configuration and pneumatic toes that made them deceptively speedy little buggers. After the pneumatic version came iSprawl, where the “i” THANK GOD FOR ONCE ACTUALLY STANDS FOR SOMETHING and is not just a prefix that got tossed on there because Apple does it and that makes it cool. It stands for independent! iSprawl is untethered and runs on batteries and makes for a pretty badass little remote control hexapod:
If you’re wondering where this project ended up going, remember these bots and these bots? Yep, Sprawl robots are their distant ancestors. It’s robot evolution in action.
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Category: Biorobotics,Research
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Comment by lance
Made Saturday, 14 of November , 2009 at 2:58 am
cool!!
Comment by quantum_flux
Made Wednesday, 10 of November , 2010 at 3:24 pm
That is a quick little hexapod.
Comment by roofing lancaster
Made Monday, 21 of November , 2011 at 1:55 pm
An impressive share, I just given this onto a colleague who was doing a bit of similar analysis on this. He in fact purchased me breakfast because I found it for him.. smile.
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Made Tuesday, 22 of November , 2011 at 12:41 pm
This actually answered the drawback, thank you!
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Made Wednesday, 23 of November , 2011 at 12:20 am
Oh my goodness! an amazing article. Thank you!
Comment by Cell Phone Accessories
Made Friday, 25 of November , 2011 at 6:20 am
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