December 15, 2006
Manx Robots

One of our new mechanisms engineers on Orion sent me a link to an interesting site covering his graduate work on small biologically-inspired robots, which use wheels resembling the Manx triskelion to mimic the motion of cockroaches: CMRU Biorobotics Lab.

The video clips are delightfully bizarre.

Posted by T.L. James on December 15, 2006 01:04 PM | TrackBack

Comments

Fascinating.

More applicable for an unmanned vehicle since the ride looks awfully bumpy.

Can you imagine a swarm of these things in a military role?



Posted by: Brad at December 22, 2006 08:35 PM

Whegs brought this old memory to mind...

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/landmaster/

...do you remember the landmaster amphibious vehicle from the 1977 movie Damnation Alley? Bad movie, interesting vehicle.



Posted by: Brad at December 24, 2006 08:45 PM