Miscellaneous

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/tw7Z6Per2_0

Published on Dec 10, 2014


David Peeters asked "Hey Grandad could you make a one wheeled rubberband powered vehicule ?
Using a ductape rol or anything cylindrical as body/wheel ?".
This is not the vehicle I will make, but it caught my eye as it is a single wheel driven by something inside.

Hamster wheel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamster_wheel) on Wikipedia

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/7MEuoXmF9YE

Tumbling robot

Published on Apr 13, 2015

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/1kkmG-XAS2c

How to make a Robot which can walk on irregular surface

Published on Nov 23, 2015


This a simple robot which can walk on irregular surface. Its non-wheel based walking mechanism. Make your own robot to get more hands on.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/jFwBVhy02A0

Goosestepping robot

Published on Feb 3, 2016


Powered a passive ramp walker with a movable counterweight using a single servo and arduino uno.


https://youtu.be/Tho-KNreWiY

Goosestepping robot version 2

Published on Apr 3, 2016


Harmless walker based on the gravity powered ramp walker toys.

[Airicist]

https://vimeo.com/164633005

PACBot with an inching gait
April 28, 2016


Passively Actuated Caterpillar robot (PACBot), built by a team of Tufts University students, demonstrates a small inching gait. This robot uses Kevlar tendons, actuated by motors placed at various points within the foam body. PACBot moves by means of directional friction when the soft body is deformed by the action of the motor-driven tendons. Tendon contractions are controlled by a student wielding an X-Box controller. This video shows the device running in tethered mode, but it can also run untethered. PACBot is one of 3 Tufts entries in the 2016 RoboSoft Challenge in Livorno, Italy. Development of PACBot was supported by a National Science Foundation IGERT grant.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/uzBMjKdgNp0

How to make a crazy walking robot

Published on Oct 6, 2016

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/VABcsAzk5mg

StriderBot robot moves

Published on Oct 8, 2016


Seven servo robot using shifting counterweight. Background music by Heftone Banjo Orchestra - Semper Fidelis. Robot is scratchbuilt and cost about $120 in parts and a 100 programming hours (too many for my tastes). It uses a simple interpolation routine to make all the servos appear to be moving at the same time.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/g9tIBfjXxu4

HexaMorph: A reconfigurable and foldable hexapod robot inspired by origami

Published on Jun 6, 2017


We present a novel starfish-like hexapod robot design with modularity, foldability and reconfigurability. Our folding scheme encompasses the periodic foldable tetrahedral units, called "Basic Structural Units" (BSU), for constructing a family of closed-loop spatial mechanisms and robotic forms. The proposed reconfigurable hexapod robot, "HexaMorph", is fabricated using single sheets of cardboard. The electronic and
battery components for actuation are allowed to be preassembled on the flattened crease-cut pattern and enclosed inside when the tetrahedral modules are folded. The robot has its self-deploying characteristics and it can employ a locomotive squirming motion.

[Airicist2]

https://youtu.be/U-Rv_wtEPnk

A multi-segment, soft growing robot with selective steering

Mar 5, 2023


This video accompanies the paper "A Multi-Segment, Soft Growing Robot with Selective Steering" by Alexander M. Kuebler, Sebastian Urdaneta Rivera, Frances B. Raphael, Julian Foerster, Roland Siegwart, and Allison M. Okamura, to be presented at RoboSoft 2023. Paper can be accessed here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03951

[Airicist2]

https://youtu.be/r1vhMWBkiHU?si=la1bu9KWvniXFdHr

Seated Walk by a Musculoskeletal Humanoid with Buttock-Contact Sensors (IROS 2022)

Apr 2, 2024


Title: Realization of Seated Walk by a Musculoskeletal Humanoid with Buttock-Contact Sensors From Human Constrained Teaching
Authors: Kento Kawaharazuka, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
Accepted at IROS2022
arxiv - https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00892

In this study, seated walk, a movement of walking while sitting on a chair with casters, is realized on a musculoskeletal humanoid from human teaching. The body is balanced by using buttock-contact sensors implemented on the planar interskeletal structure of the human mimetic musculoskeletal robot. Also, we develop a constrained teaching method in which one-dimensional control command, its transition, and a transition condition are described for each state in advance, and a threshold value for each transition condition such as joint angles and foot contact sensor values is determined based on human teaching. Complex behaviors can be easily generated from simple inputs. In the musculoskeletal humanoid MusashiOLegs, forward, backward, and rotational movements of seated walk are realized.