RHex Rough-Terrain Robot
Why Hacker News recommends it
Mentioned in passing as an example of practical legged robots and as a comparison point for hexapod projects.
What it is
A short Boston Dynamics demo of RHex, a 30-lb six-legged robot built for rough terrain, remotely operated with a video uplink and about four hours of battery life. It can run right-side-up or upside-down.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2012 to 2014.
What Hacker News said
Cites jonah · 2012-03 · on “New Video Of Sand Flea Robot Leaping (Onto) Tall Buildings 30ft High”
Nice. My friend did his PhD on gecko adhesives too[1]. He later built[2] a "six-legged" robot like Boston Dynamics' RHex 'bot[3]. [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [this video]
Cites alxndr · 2014-03 · on “Google I/O 2014”
Some pretty silly lines in there: Object { boson1: "Reticulating Splines..." boson2: "There's more Ajax in this loader than an epic greek poem" boson3: "♬ Reunited and it feels so good" boson4: "Are you there, Boson? It's me, Margaret." boson5: "♬ Is he a dot, or is he a speck? When he's underwater does he get wet?" exo1: ""Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." - Carl Sagan" exo2: "Call me V'Ger" exo3: "As far as we know, the universe is not Tail Call optimized." exo-argon: "Investigating: Class J Planet Argon" exo-bleu: "Detecting: Class H Pl
Cites User8712 · 2014-04 · on “MorpHex, a hexapod robot”
How is it practical? It's a beautiful design, but far simpler designs can run circles around it in every scenario I can imagine. A small version might make for a fun desk toy. When I think practical, I think Boston Dynamics. [this video] [LINK]