Six-Legged Robots Faster Than Nature-Inspired Gait

Researchers at EPFL and UNIL have discovered a faster and more efficient gait, never observed in nature, for six-legged robots walking on flat ground. Bio-inspired gaits - less efficient for robots - are used by real insects since they have adhesive pads to walk in three dimensions. The results provide novel approaches for roboticists and new information to biologists.
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[@Oblivion4pcand360]

I'm sorry. You put little boots on a fly and didn't show us? Has Science gone too far?

[@Lorenzo_Giannetti]

I was thinking the same 😂

[@Iamwolf134]

I was thinking more of a tripod gait with at least one leg always taking a step onto the ground (as one leg out of 4 just touches the ground, the opposite leg leaves the ground) for locomotion.

[@jimwilliams1536]

You put tiny boots on a fly? That's more interesting than your robot walking by a county mile.

[@LanceWinslow]

very excellent and informative, I recommend this video.

[@jorje0068]

I really needed this

[@arielgalil]

Incredible!

[@julianecarera6105]

Very interesting!

[@zetathix]

Any compare about power consumption?

[@EngineerM]

Interesting.

[@smcfadden1992]

Does it have less stable movement?

[@johnc646]

Please don’t make spider robots

[@andrasziegenham6766]

Spiders have 8 legs. And 6 legged "spider" robots are cool.

[@cupofkoa]

In conclusion, the title is misleading.

[@Spartak331]

ja 🐺 vol

[@lorenz323]

But the centipedes has more legs but use this gait. I think is nothing new, sorry.

[@azmanabdula]

The centipede legs move in waves, im not sure its the same.......

[@atomictraveller]

a foot to push against the ground, a foot to land on. i've often thought that students should build a unipod before anything else.
i don't understand how so many people can build robots who have apparently never engaged in actual movement. (eg. the laughable reductio ad absurdum of many builds which attempt to use the same gait for all speeds). velocity changes the state. i think, let the chinese who do martial arts write your software. and a survey corroborates, the only hexapod i've seen moving at any respectable rate was chinese. how can you spend all that money when you don't even care. stop following rules. they didn't know. or at least send me some servos so i can show you. i'm getting old and you need my help, not my economic predation.

[@atomictraveller]

ftr, for western aspirants at least, please write audio dsp for a few years, before anything multidimensional. you need to learn how to *write* software, not fit preexistent algorithms to a task. same here, widely celebrated for innovation and creativity, destroyed by people who prefer inarticulate and needful customers. this is why all the builds are the same, no one actually generates algorithms/methods, they research to see the best of what they can glean from others instead of using the best source on the planet for any task, yourself.

[@freeshavaacadooo1095]

@@atomictraveller You seem so misinformed and reading your comments is like a roller coaster of bullshit for any brain on this planet...

[@crusaderzero3984]

I don't know what you smoke but your tedious nonsense feels like a auto translation from Chinese text wrote by a brain damaged person 💩💩💩

[@midgetman4206]

@@atomictraveller One leg at a given time? Isn't that a gallop? Wouldn't the system need speed for that? Servos aren't exactly the quickest. Could solenoids perhaps help with that?