Forum: Bryce


Subject: OT: creepy starfish robot figures out how to walk

Death_at_Midnight opened this issue on Sep 01, 2007 · 16 posts


pauljs75 posted Mon, 03 September 2007 at 8:30 PM

I dunno...  I think of dragoons or mantis bots, depending on which RTS you prefer.

It looks really cool when it's "stretching out" at the beginning. But I feel it's gimped even before they start tearing it apart. The legs really need a sweeping  y-axis articulation where they connect to the body so it can actually scoot (or at least has the potential to.) Most arthopods have a really short 1st leg segment connecting to the body that works this way. Ah...  They're modeling on the legs of a starfish (which is kinda flawed since most of those use the little tube feet all over their body to get around and not their legs.)


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