Tag: Russian

Inventor Nikolai Teleshev watching the operation of an integral robot designed by him. Any further information on this inventor and robot gripper most welcomed.

Russian Walking Machines from Dept. of Theoretical Mechanics. All source material from here. Now tens of scientific groups in the world are developing this problem. Walking machines can be divided into two parts: dynamical stability (with a few legs) and statical stability (multilegged) machines. The letter can be divided into vehicles of profile practicability and …

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In 1953, the Soviet acrobat, athlete, illusionist Anatoly Sokol (his real surname was Sadokha) has prepared an original attraction “The Miracles without Miracles”. The stunts, built on the use of telemechanics, high frequency currents, ultrasound, radio engineering (radio engineers A. Tyushkevich and V. Sidyakin), were performed for the first time in this attraction. In 1966 …

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Model of an 8-legged walking platform. Article comes from the May 1976 edition of the Russian hobby magazine "TM".   Note: My OCR program is unable to recognise the Russian characters due to the poor quality of my electronic copy (in djvu format).

Biomechanical foundations of locomotion design (1978) by V S Gurfinkel, S V Fomin,  Moscow Lomonosov State University published in 1st CISM-IFToMM Symposium, Vol 1 p. 133 see p 160 Robots and Telechirs – Thring In a study of the biomechanical principles of construction artificial walking systems, Gurfinkel and Fomin used aq system consisting of a …

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