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Asterix, Omni Directional Hexapod
A hexapod robot from Osaka University named Asterix can do many things. The six legged robot can climb over objects, squeeze under them and even cartwheel thanks to Professor Arai and his team at Osaka University. Asterix has 6 legs, spaced 60 degrees apart. The robot is the same on the top or the bottom, [...]
Prospero Robotic Farmer
Prospero is a project by David Dorhout for a SchmartBoard contest. The idea here is for a swarm of hexapods to do all your planting and crop tending for you. The project write up states: Prospero is the working prototype of an Autonomous Micro Planter (AMP) that uses a combination of swarm and game theory [...]
Lego Hexapod Robot
Cool lego hexapod by Gus Janns . See photos on the Flickr Lego Hexapod Walker set. Link via (Make)
Hexapod Walker
Pololu has a great little tutorial on how to make the hexapod walker shown here. Pololu is an electronics company started by 3 former MIT students and based in Las Vegas. For about $70 in parts that are sold by Pololu, you can build yourself this fun hexapod robot. Six-legged locomotion is a simple, robust [...]
Hexapod Competition
The largest robotics event in Austria is almost here. April 16 2009 is the Hexapod Championships. The events are sponsored by Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. See some of the previous entries into the competition after the break. Link via (Botjunkie)