http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/06/07/hibiscus-a-rescue-bot/ Deliciously Geeky... Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:33:34 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/06/07/hibiscus-a-rescue-bot/comment-page-1/#comment-18070 Kouroth Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:37:10 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/06/07/hibiscus-a-rescue-bot/#comment-18070 Insect, leg based robots, would function much better in those kinds of situations. Make a spider-bot that has no ?up or down? side with griper claws on its feet. That would be able to get into many more places. The hardest part isn?t the design however, its how to control the thing. Operation of 8 legs that can extend in any direction would be hard. But with enough iterations of a learning program I?d bet it could work. Insect, leg based robots, would function much better in those kinds of situations. Make a spider-bot that has no ?up or down? side with griper claws on its feet. That would be able to get into many more places. The hardest part isn?t the design however, its how to control the thing. Operation of 8 legs that can extend in any direction would be hard. But with enough iterations of a learning program I?d bet it could work.

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