This robot is really cool and reminds me of some sort of Pokémon snail/millipede creature or Rincewind’s Luggage from Terry Pratchett’s novels. Icosatetraped means that is has 24 feet, which whilst is true, only actually uses 8 of them to move – the other 16 ‘feet’ being used to support the robot’s weight. Most remarkable is that the feet themselves are soft – that is they are made from hollow, ribbed tubing – which is quite novel. The ribbed part is important too since the feet are controlled pneumatically, the tubes filling with air and emptying to bend them in any direction! The robot is controlled over wifi to a mac mini.

I would like to know how many weekends “a few weekends” (the time it took to construct) is because if it is anything less than eight that is incredible! I want to work at Google and make robots damnit.

via Boing Boing

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