| Feb 22, 2013 | |
Six-legged, bioinspired robot can run at 5.2m/s (w/video) |
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| (Nanowerk News) STAR is a six legged bioinspired, 12cm long, Sprawl Tuned Autonomous Robot which can vary its sprawl angle in order to adapt to different surfaces. | |
| Developed at UC Berkeley's Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, the robot, can achieve legged performance over rough surfaces and obstacles, using a high sprawl angle, and nearly wheel-like performance over smooth surfaces for small sprawl angles. By changing the sprawl angle it can climb over obstacle or crawl underneath them. | |
| STAR can run at 5.2m/s (43 body lengths/second, Froude number 9.8) over a smooth surface which makes it the fastest untethered crawling robot. | |
| STAR was developed by David Zarrouk, Andrew Pullin, Nick Kohut and Ronald Fearing. | |
| More info on STAR is scheduled to be presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013) in Germany in May. |
| Source: KTH The Royal Institute of Technology | |
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