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Offline Steve JoblinTopic starter

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Wheg Robots
« on: November 09, 2007, 11:55:25 AM »
Check out this video of Boston Dynamic's Rhex:

[youtube=425,350]a0NFrA-Nx4Y[/youtube]
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Re: Wheg Robots
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2007, 12:32:30 PM »
Yeah, I've already seen that one. :)
It's the best wheg robot I know of, I love the sturdyness of it, the way it recovered from that near-fall, the way it bounced when it was going downhill, the way it climbed those stairs ,etc.
This video inspired me to build my own, but I haven't had time to start with it yet... It'll be very hard to make mine as good as this one though :P
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Re: Wheg Robots
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2007, 06:08:32 PM »
awesome

looks hilarious at teh the end running full speed
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Re: Wheg Robots
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2007, 10:34:05 PM »
Correction, it was originally a robot developed at CMU, but other researchers have copied and advanced the design. :P
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Re: Wheg Robots
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2007, 05:21:33 PM »
looks like a wounded deer at the end ...lol   ;D
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Re: Wheg Robots
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2007, 07:24:11 PM »
cute hilarious little bugger aint he hahahah Its impressive the beating that thing can take. It looked awesome in the water too

I totally want to make one :'(

It does look absolutely hilarious at the end. I very LOLed hahaha
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Re: Wheg Robots
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2008, 01:34:20 PM »
HAHA. Awesome design.
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Re: Wheg Robots
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2008, 03:21:04 PM »
im gonna make one someday.

Any ideas on what to make the curved legs out of?
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Re: Wheg Robots
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2008, 05:13:57 PM »
Here's a good question too - how would one determine that robot's position autonomously? You can't just use OSEs and determine a position from there. You could use vision but landmarks would constantly be changing angles and sometimes be upside down...

An interesting problem but still a cool bot.
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Re: Wheg Robots
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Re: Wheg Robots
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2008, 08:11:40 PM »
lol admin you never cease to amase me :D but that robot is freakin kool i wish i had some sort of instructions..;D
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