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Phasma Insectoid Robot Looks Familiar

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 25 of August , 2009 at 12:01 am

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Before you get all outraged like I just did, this robot (called Phasma) is a direct (and suitably credited) descendant of Stanford’s Sprawl and iSprawl robots that we wrote about back in April. Just like iSprawl, Phasma uses a system of flexible cables to transmit power to its legs, which it uses in an insect-like, alternating tripod gait. One big advantage of this system is that the flexible cables allow the motor to be placed pretty much anywhere on the robot without significant energy loss, as well as giving it big freaky antenna lookin’ things:

Make this into an R/C toy.

Please.

[ Phasma ] VIA [ Pink Tentacle ]

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Category: Biorobotics

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Comment by quantum_flux

Made Thursday, 11 of November , 2010 at 10:02 am

Not quite sure how it works, hard to tell, but this presumeably has a series of cams or pulleys that pull on the wires at different times?

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