Manned Hexapod – cyberneticzoo.com http://cyberneticzoo.com a history of cybernetic animals and early robots Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:33:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 1972 – Manned Hexapod (Model) – Ignatiev (Soviet) http://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1974-manned-hexapod-ignatiev-russian/ Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:38:06 +0000 http://cyberneticzoo.com/?p=3851 In 1974, a hexapod with legs arranged radially about a central vertical axis was made in the Aviation Instrument Institute in St.Petersburg. (Ignatyev et al, 1974). Ignatyev, M., F.M.Kulakov & Mihaeilov, A.(1974). Algorithms for control of robot-manipulators. Mechanics of Machines 46, “Nauka”, Moscow, (in Russian). [RH-2012- The arm on the hexapod is actually the end-effector […]

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]]> 1983 – “Six-Legged Hydraulic Walker” – Ivan Sutherland (American) http://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1983-six-legged-hydraulic-walker-ivan-sutherland-american/ Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:37:22 +0000 http://cyberneticzoo.com/?p=2550 1983 "Trojan Cockroach", a Six-Legged Hydraulic Walker by Ivan Sutherland. The Sutherland Walker was a six-legged all-terrain robotic designed by Sutherland Sproull Associates with the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University under contract to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The robot used a gasoline motor to power its legs and required a driver […]

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