March 15,1966 "The Torun Robot" - Torun, Poland, is famous for the Gingerbread Man and now a robot. Marian Jasnoch, a young electrical engineer has been working on this robot since 1962. The robot can answer a phone, convey a few simple sentences, record messages, nurse a baby, clean a…
TUMBLING EXPLORER, or TEX, was an early design conceived by Space General. It resembles an oyster shell and is extremely manoeuverable. It could be dropped from an unmanned spacecraft ready for action. A TV camera is contained in each panel and operates on radio command. The three illustrations above illustrate…
Copied from N55 WALKING HOUSE homesite, see here. manual for WALKING HOUSE WALKING HOUSE, Copenhagen 2008 Introduction: WALKING HOUSE is a modular dwelling system that enables persons to live a peaceful nomadic life, moving slowly through the landscape or cityscape with minimal impact on the environment. It collects energy from its…
USEFUL ROBOTS US Patent number: 3522859 - see here for full patent details. Filing date: Jan 22, 1968 Issue date: Aug 4, 1970 First filed in Great Britain 26 Jan 1967 Model of Centipede. The 'centipede' In the first model (Fig. 6.15(a) above) of the centipede the sprung legs were…
Source: Popular Mechanics, March 1922 Patent number: 1287643 - see full patent details here. Filing date: Dec 12, 1917 Issue date: Dec 17, 1918
Source: Popular Science, September 1922
Caption: Two Small Models Which were Built to Demonstrate the Operation of the Walking Legs That Took the Place of Driving Wheels Source: Popular Science Monthly, Aug 1921 "WALKING" MOTOR CAR TRAVELS SLIPPERY ROADS A true nonskidding motor car has been evolved by a Czecho-Slovakian inventor in which the driving…
Original article copied from Core77 here. Burning Man: Walking Pod, Mechanical Beest Vehicle Posted by Jessica Charlesworth | 13 Sep 2012 | Comments (2) Meet Scott, a commercial welder who by day runs his own sheet metal fabricating business in Sacramento with 3 other colleagues, and by night, he constructs…
Text from Video Clip: Octipes Vehiculum is an 8-legged walking machine which I built for my studies in mechanical engieneering in 2012 at my university (Fachhochschule Stralsund, Germany). It is muscle-powered, driven by a pedal movement. I was inspired by the strandbeesten of Theo Jansen (www.strandbeest.com). Unfortunately the vehicle isn`t…