Birth of the world's fastest small robot "VELOCIROACH" with motifs of cockroaches

Duncan Holden of the University of California at Berkeley and others have developed a robot that moves as a robot at the speed of the world's fastest class. The name is "VELOCIROACH", as the name Roachi suggests, is a six-legged robot with a cockroach motif.

Pockets of cockroaches per se are not included in the article.

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One Per Cent: Cardboard cockroach ranks among world's fastest robots
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Mr. Holden referred to cockroaches, which are excellent in agility and are running quickly running insects in making dynamic robots. The parameters such as the mass and strength of the leg and the frequency of operation are filled and completed.VELOCIRoACH"is. By the way it is expressed as "robot", but the material is cardboard (cardboard).

VELOCIRoACH operates in the band length of 10 cm, weight 30 g, 2 to 26 Hz. Mr. Holden referred to cockroach was a large American cockroach (Periplaneta americana), but the American cockroach is long and slender compared to the body, Mr. Holden is thinner than VELOCIRoACH's original plan, and unnecessary one is removed I went by.

As a result, surprisingly VELOCIRoACH is able to run at 2.7 m / s faster than before. The movie that VELOCIROACH runs with shakershaka and eyesless momentum is kore.



In the biomimetic mill system lab to which Mr. Duncan belongs, he has been doing research on robots that run at high speed with six legs before, and the team of P. Birkmeyer and others is making a robot called "DASH". Although this is slow compared to VELOCIROACH at 1.5 m / s, it is helpful to have a detailed explanation of the development process of the movie.

DASH: Resilient High-Speed ​​16-gram Hexapedal Robot - YouTube


The size of DASH is 10 cm in length and 16.2 g in weight. It was made with motifs of cockroaches that skillfully rotate six legs and move fast. Apparently, it seems best to have a cockroach motif when making with six legs.


Since it is made of cardboard, once the design drawing is completed, the body assembly will be completed in 29 minutes, even if the legs are included, it will be completed in less than 1 hour.


When this is seen from the back, it is the cockroach that the six legs are rotating alternately.


Actually running in Shakashaka



Where durability exists it is similar to cockroaches, and although it turns tightly when dropped from a high place ......


I start running as if nothing had happened. Awesome, cardboard body.


By the way, if it is possible to run fast as a robotBoston DynamicsofCheetahIt is famous, and it records 45.5 km / h (12.5 m / sec) here.

Cheetah Robot runs 28.3 mph; a bit faster than Usain Bolt - YouTube


Holden says "VELOCIAROACH is the fastest in the world as a robot of this size" from the fact that the size of robot is different from Cheetah in the first place, New Scientist is expressed as "VELOCIROACH running like wind" It is.