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Thread: RHex, six-legged robot, devours rough terrain, Boston Dynamics, Inc., Kod*lab, USA

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    Published on Nov 25, 2014

    On 11/21/2014, Kodlab and RHex visited the RAIR, Recycled Artist in
    Residence and Revolution Recovery recycling center in Philadelphia.
    RAIR creates awareness about sustainability through art and design and
    is hosted at Revolution Recovery, a recycling center specializing in
    construction and demoltion. We ran the robot up piles of drywall, wood
    chips, concrete pieces, and some looser debris in an effort to see how
    the robot would perform in "rubble."

    RHex does well on both steep inclines and unstable surfaces, but the
    combination is very challenging. Recently, we've been exploring robot
    performance in different kinds of unstable materials such as sand

    The other challenge we encountered at the recycling center was large
    chunks of concrete that the robot couldn't clamber over. Jumping up
    onto boulders that would otherwise be impossible to overcome was the
    focus of our most recent PhD, Aaron Johnson's, thesis

    We are planning to go back to the recycling center this winter and use
    some of the insights from our desert trips and Aaron's work to overcome
    the challenges we encountered during this trip.

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    RHex Paints

    Published on Jan 22, 2015

    Shortly before the Penn School of Design classes began, this past summer RHex borrowed a studio and explored its artistic abilities. RHex had three artist assistants, Anna, Mauricio and Diedra, to help with the execution. The path of the robot was not preplanned but in the future RHex will have the ability to walk without human assistance. Most of the painting was done using a tripod gait. Other mark making was done by using the turn in place behavior – can you identify how turn in place works?
    The turn in place enabled the legs to have longer contact with the ground to make more interesting marks. At first the tire treads from its C shaped legs left decisive traces on the paper. Sponge brushes attached to the legs had the most painterly results.

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    RHex robots assist aeolian scientists in desert research

    Published on Sep 22, 2016

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    RHex dances

    Published on Nov 10, 2016

    #tbt to 2013 when Kod*lab hosted a dance competition in lab to program RHex or another lab robot to dance in preparation for our exhibition at Discovery Day at Clark Park 2013, as part of the Philadelphia Science Festival.

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    Lapsis, the making of, with Kod*lab

    Mar 8, 2021

    Kod*lab PhD students Abriana Stewart-Height, Diego Caporale and Wei-Hsi Chen, with former Kod*lab student Garrett Wenger were on set in the summer of 2019 to operate RHex for the filming of Lapsis, a first feature film by director and screenwriter Noah Hutton. These RHex robots had been previously built by Kod*lab at the University of Pennsylvania for the Museum of Science and Industry’s (MSI) exhibition Robot Revolution. We were grateful that MSI could then lend them to us to use in the film. Lab Coordinator Diedra Krieger shot behind the scenes video of work in progress on set. This video offers a look at the process and team work to create Lapsis.

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