Japanese robot Asterisk 6 feet

Researchers at the Robotics Arai Laboratory, Osaka University, Japan, have successfully created the Asterisk Robot (with six symmetrically spaced legs spaced 60 degrees apart around the robot body) ; This is the result of a research effort over the past six years that aims to develop the functions of six-legged robots to perform important tasks in many areas of society, including: searching, rescuing maintenance and maintenance of buildings.

From the top down, the Asterisk Robot: with six legs arranged symmetrically at a distance of 60 degrees around the robot body, each leg has 4 levels of freedom, allowing the Asterisk Robot to move almost anywhere. Any direction, Robot Asterisk does not have a clear "head" and "bottom" , so when turned upside down, the Asterisk Robot easily re-directs the legs and continues to perform the task.

Asterisk robot can understand the surrounding environment by using a variety of sensors to feedback different information: the head of the legs (6 legs) robot equipped with pressure sensor (3 pins with the device Infrared sensor, the other 3 legs are equipped with wireless camera. The robot's senses are made up of: gyroscope sensors, accelerometers and three CCD cameras. After each charge of the lithium battery, the Asterisk Robot (4kg) can operate for about 15 minutes.

Currently, the Asterisk robot can walk (with speeds up to 0.5 m / sec or 1.64ft / s), equipped with six rollers in the foot. The robot identifies the stairs and holds the object in two of its six legs, pushes heavy objects, obstructs obstacles, walks, overturns or vertically on the iron bar surface and may even be acrobatic. Asterisk robots can also be transformed into a more modest configuration (76.2mm instead of 78mm in height) to enter narrower spaces (in disaster relief situations), which may help save lives. live multiple lives.