Amazing Robotics and Hexapods

Gizmodo has an interesting post showing some of the robotics built by Shigeo Hirose.  

Check out the video on the post, there’s some pretty amazing stuff there, even if several of the robots are several years old.

I’m also currently obsessing over Hexapods.  Six-legged insectile robots, take a look:

I quite like the idea of this RC Helicopter / Hexapod hybrid:

You can buy kits from Lynxmotion but they’re not cheap. I already have some of the parts needed, so perhaps I’ll buy bits over time..