Collaborate Disseminate
Last year, Hong Kong’s MangDang gave programmers the chance to own a small hackable four-legged robot named the Mini Pupper, a kind of baby Spot. Now the team has returned to Kickstarter with a much-improved second generation robo-dog.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Mini Pupper 2 makes a bid to be your new hackable robo-dog pal
What’s this? News about robot dogs comes out, and there’s no video of the bots busting a move on the dance floor? Nope — it looks like quadruped robots are …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 14, 2022
Ghost Robotics’ Vision 60 quadruped robot is already quite a versatile beast, capable of walking, running and even carrying a gun. Now, thanks to a third-party attachment, it can also “swim” through the water.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, Technol… Continue reading Aftermarket NAUT module lets Vision 60 quadruped robot swim
While scientists have already created tight-space-exploring robots based on snakes and cockroaches, rats are also highly adept at squeezing through narrow openings and traversing uneven terrain. They now have a robotic equivalent of their own, in the f… Continue reading Robotic rat may one day search for survivors at disaster sites
Chinese company Unitree’s quadruped robots are clearly influenced by the SpotMini bot, which can be equipped with a rather creepy-looking manipulator arm. Not to be outdone, Unitree has now announced an arm of its own, which will allow its robots to pe… Continue reading Unitree quadruped robots get a helping hand – a whole arm, in fact
ETH Zurich’s ANYmal robot was already impressive back when it simply walked on four legs. It got more interesting when wheels were added to those legs, letting it both walk and roll. That wheeled version is now also able to stand up, and could soon be … Continue reading Wheeled, legged quadruped robot is now set to stand and deliver
If a foraging ant encounters a gap too wide for it to cross on its own, the insect will sometimes signal other ants to form a bridge of their linked bodies. Such behaviour has now been copied in a small four-legged robot, that may someday inspire bette… Continue reading Ant-inspired quadruped robots link together to overcome obstacles
Legged robots span all sorts of shapes and sizes. From the paradigm-setting quadrupeds built from a pit-crew of grad students to the Kickstarter canines that are sure to entertain your …read more Continue reading Wild Lego-Bot Pronks About your Patio
While many people are fascinated by Boston Dynamics’ dog-inspired Spot quadruped robot, there’s no way that they could ever afford one of their own. They could still own a different robo-dog, though, in the form of the smaller and cheaper Mini Pupper.C… Continue reading Mini Pupper could be your open-source miniature robo-dog
Join us on Wednesday, September 29 at noon Pacific for the Robot Dogs Hack Chat with Afreez Gan! Thanks to the efforts of a couple of large companies, many devoted …read more Continue reading Robot Dogs Hack Chat