Comments on: Morphing robot demonstrated at IROS http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:41:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: echodelta http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-203275 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:03:50 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-203275 It looks like pressure is having to do the work here.
the thing is puffing out. NASA tried this back in the moon race days as a robot rover. Wheels won.

]]> By: LuciusMare http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-125791 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:23:47 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-125791 Holy… This thing really scares me, if i would see it rolling and morphing towards me, i would probably run away. Although, cool it is.

]]> By: niccohel http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-107486 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:45:17 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-107486 robo-booger

]]> By: 0x808080 http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-102380 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:15:44 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-102380 Very interesting watching that thing roll around while it repeatedly deflates and becomes engorged

]]> By: Chris_C http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-102323 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:52:29 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-102323 Metroid comes to (real) life!!!

]]> By: ProGamingLife.com http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-101829 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:08:59 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-101829 @Hirudinea

That’s what they want. It creeps in, you shoot it, they’re not liable when it sprays deadly fumes/liquid all over the room your in… you’ve gotta think of these things.

]]> By: vash http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-101803 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:34:15 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-101803 no need for robitic organs wean we can grow our own anyways…

i want one,
I want one,
No
i want 7! :-D

]]> By: 210 Backlinks http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-101790 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:48:45 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-101790 Great thanks!

]]> By: teck monkey http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-101697 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:23:09 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-101697 cool would love to see this incorprated in to a hexapod…oh another idea artificial organs..new type of pacemaker/heart?

]]> By: KillaCam http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-101688 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:56:05 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-101688 Isn’t that the same stuff in ‘Stretch-Armstrong’ toys?

]]> By: grovenstien http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-101672 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:18:28 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-101672 Stamp on it before it destroys us all!

]]> By: _matt http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-101667 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:05:16 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-101667 Video was well done, robot was strange.
I could possibly see a very large version of this as a way to make any terrain walkable, filling in voids or holes and smoothing slopes of large rocks and what have you.

]]> By: Andy http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-101618 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:27:14 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-101618 @Matt

Nope! :)
Now if it deformed into the right shape that would make the ‘punting’ that much easier…

]]> By: RHF http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-101599 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:43:54 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-101599 @vsnine

Look at the video 02:45 time index.

]]> By: vsnine http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/morphing-robot-demonstrated-at-iros/comment-page-1/#comment-101596 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:30:18 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=17312#comment-101596 Anyone know the name of the song in the latter half of the video?

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