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[/caption]It’s quite amazing to see this type of garage project, but beyond the technical feat, we really like the quality of the design which is always one of the most important factor for robot coolness.
A Norwegian engineer named Kare Halvorsen came up with an idea of a project to create a sphere shaped hexapod that could move in every possible direction. Some other features which he thought of was making it roll freely like a ball, walk like a hexapod, varying body dimensions and the capability of transforming the sphere to a hexapod and back again.
The principal material used for the outer shape of the robot was a globe, which he bought from a local toy store. The spherical structure was cut into 12 equal parts.
The MorpHex is controlled by a remote wirelessly, synced with a Basicmicro ARC-32 board.
If you are curious,visit this site to know how the robot was built.
Watch this video if you don't believe.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2j69eI9ob8]
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