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Here is very a simple and easy way to make your own insect robot. You can easily change the shape of legs and see different funny and interesting movements of the bug robot. Follow the video add your idea on top of it and make yourself.
A robot generally is very difficult in structure. It has complex mechanical parts, electronic and sensor circuit boards, firmware and software. Therefore difficult to make at home yourself and students loose interests on it. That is why made this video of insect robo toy to grow the interest in Robotics among the armature and students.

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It is a simple Robot Insect toy, making with cell phone vibrating motor and 1.5v battery.

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In this tutorial, I'll be showing you step by step process to make a simple six legged walking insect robot.

Parts needed to build this one:

Ice cream/popsicle stick
Paper clips
Drinking straw
Gear motor
Terminal block
Bolts, nuts and locknuts
Wire
Double sided tape
Black electric tape (optional)

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JumpRoACH : A Milli-Scale Height-Adjustable Jumping Mechanism and Its Application to Jumping-Crawling Robot (ICRA 2016)

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Credit: (video footage) Toshiyuki Nakata, Nathan Phillips, Patrício Simões, Ian J. Russell, Jorn A. Cheney, Simon M. Walker, Richard J. Bomphrey; (music) Pond5

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EECS Colloquium
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
4:00​​​ - 5:00 pm

Sawyer B. Fuller
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle

Abstract:
Sub-gram (insect-sized) robots have enormous potential that is largely untapped. From a research perspective, their extreme size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints also forces us to reimagine everything from how they compute their control laws to how they are fabricated. These questions are the focus of the Autonomous Insect Robotics Laboratory at the University of Washington. I will discuss potential applications for insect robots and recent advances from our group. These include the first wireless flights of a sub-gram flapping-wing robot that weighs barely more than a toothpick. I will describe efforts to expand its capabilities, including the first multimodal ground-flight locomotion, the first demonstration of steering control, and how to find chemical plume sources by integrating the smelling apparatus of a live moth. I will also describe a backpack for live beetles with a steerable camera and conceptual design of robots that could scale all the way down to the "gnat robots" first envisioned by Flynn & Brooks in the 80's.

Biography
Sawyer Fuller creates biologically-inspired sensors, control systems, and mechanical designs targeted at insect-sized air and ground vehicles, and investigates the flight systems of aerial insects. He completed his Ph.D. in Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and postdoctoral training at Harvard. His work at the intersection of robotics and biology has appeared in Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Robots built by engineers at the University of California San Diego helped achieve a major breakthrough in understanding how insect flight evolved, described in the Oct. 4, 2023 issue of the journal Nature. The study is a result of a six-year long collaboration between roboticists at UC San Diego and biophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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