Monday, July 23, 2012

Custom Japanese Hobby Robot Somersaults with Servo Tentacles - IEEE Spectrum

Custom Japanese Hobby Robot Somersaults with Servo Tentacles - IEEE Spectrum: Straight from Japan comes this robot called "Metallic Vaio 2012," which has a style of locomotion that we've never seen before. Instead of using arms or legs, it's got a sort of combination of both: two long tentacles made out of chains of servos that it uses to crawl around and rapidly somersault from place to place...
Besides its name, we know that it apparently has 18 degrees of freedom...

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