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02.15.12
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Video: Truck-Sized Inflatable Anteater 'Bot Traipses Through Water and Grass

The robot supports 15 times its own weight
By Rebecca Boyle Posted 11.23.2011 at 2:17 pm 13 Comments

Meet Ant-Roach, an inflatable clackety six-legged robot with a protruding proboscis. It’s made of fabric inflatable actuators and pneumatic piping, and its limbs are driven by central manifolds that dispense compressed air. It’s tough enough that you can ride it, which is undeniably awesome.

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Passive-Walking Robot Can Stroll Downhill Forever With No Power Source

By Rebecca Boyle Posted 10.27.2011 at 1:06 pm 16 Comments

When I was your age, to get to school I had to walk uphill both ways, frequently during snowstorms. (It was good exercise.) Imagine walking downhill both ways — how easy that would be! Gravity would be a friend and not a foe! It’s so simple, even this bodyless robot can do it. Its golf club legs can amble in perpetuity, powered by nothing but its own forward momentum.

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Robot in the Rain

By popsci Posted 06.26.2007 at 3:38 pm 1 Comment

Yes, we're a long way from a walking robot butler, or even Paulie's
wheeled maid in Rocky III, but Kawada Industries, a Japanese
robotics company, continues to push the technology forward. While
their humanoids don't get as much hype as Honda's ASIMO, Kawada's
models have many of the same capabilities.

Maybe the problem is that
they're just not as cute as little ASIMO. The newest version, HRP-3
Promet, looks like it just walked out of an anime book - there's
definitely a Voltron-esque quality. It can walk on two legs, and it's
also waterproof. Still, on looks alone, we prefer its predecessor, the
more colorful HRP-2.—Gregory Mone


But hey, it walks on sand!

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