http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/arti...in-flight.aspx
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Spiderbots may repair spacecraft in flight 12/09/2008
Small, palm sized, six legged robots have been developed by NASA to function cooperatively in order to undertake construction, repair, exploration, search and rescue activities in space
Looking remarkably like the “Replicators” in the TV “Stargate” science fiction series, the new “SpiderBots” are presently able to crawl on a flexible, rectangular mesh in micro gravity, walk on a flat surface and assemble simple structures. Each leg includes two spring compliant joints and a gripping actuator. The devices move in a hard-coded set of tripod gaits involving the alternating motion of two sets of three legs between anchored and not anchored to mesh states.
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excerpt:
Spiderbots may repair spacecraft in flight 12/09/2008
Small, palm sized, six legged robots have been developed by NASA to function cooperatively in order to undertake construction, repair, exploration, search and rescue activities in space
Looking remarkably like the “Replicators” in the TV “Stargate” science fiction series, the new “SpiderBots” are presently able to crawl on a flexible, rectangular mesh in micro gravity, walk on a flat surface and assemble simple structures. Each leg includes two spring compliant joints and a gripping actuator. The devices move in a hard-coded set of tripod gaits involving the alternating motion of two sets of three legs between anchored and not anchored to mesh states.
REST AT LINK ABOVE
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