The Chiara
Some folks (Dave Touretzky, Gaku Sato, Ethan Tira-Thompson, and David Rice) in the Tekkotsu Lab at Carnegie Mellon are building a hexapod robot called the Chiara. It uses Dynamixel AX-12+ servos.
Front Legs Demo 1:
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Dave Touretzky presenting the Chiara at the Tekkotsu Faculty Workshop at Spelman College, March 29, 2008.
The front legs will have four degrees of freedom.
Each leg has a tibia composed of two plates linked by two cross-braces.
The foot is a sharp point to prevent slippage on carpet.
The middle and back legs have three degrees of freedom.
Initial Sketches in Solidworks
Dave Touretzky
Last modified: Tue Jul 1 20:36:01 EDT 2008
