Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Check out this the HECTOR spider robot
This spidery looking robot is designed by the University of
Bielefeld’s Department of Biological Cybernetics, and it is the HECTOR,
which is a weird quasi-acronym meaning the HExapod Cognitive auTonmously
Operating Robot.
This mechanical arachnid is about a meter long, and weighs in at 12
kilograms, with 13 percent of it being the exoskeleton. I’m not certain
what percentage of a real