iestyn.net » hexapod http://www.iestyn.net/wp "the concrete world is starting to get ya." Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:27:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Stunning ant – hexapod variant http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/06/stunning-ant-hexapod-variant http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/06/stunning-ant-hexapod-variant#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:22:52 +0000 Iestyn http://www.iestyn.net/wp/?p=253 Fantastic articulation on this hexapod variant:

Via Trossen Robotics blog and @robotbrighton

]]> http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/06/stunning-ant-hexapod-variant/feed 1 Amazing Robotics and Hexapods http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/03/29/amazing-robotics-and-hexapods http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/03/29/amazing-robotics-and-hexapods#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:28:19 +0000 Iestyn http://www.iestyn.net/wp/?p=188 Gizmodo has an interesting post showing some of the robotics built by Shigeo Hirose.  

snake robot

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..

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