Walking robots come in many forms, and each presents their own unique challenges. Bipedal style locomotion is considered particularly difficult to do well, however designs with more legs offer certain ...

Vorpal is an affordable, open source, wireless 3D printed scratch programmable hexapod robot has this week been launched via Kickstarter with the aim of raising $18,000 over the next 33 days. Watch ...

In this series I will be documenting my design and testing process for making a 3D printed arduino hexapod. This video goes over the new leg design, specifically a design for a 3D printed spring ...

What’s more awesome than a normal hexapod robot? What about a MEGA hexapod? Max the Megapod, a six-legged 3D-printed walking robot, is an open source, Arduino-based, Bluetooth controlled, Scratch ...

“It’s a terrifying robot tarantula, run for your liiiii — oh, it’s slow. Maybe just walk for your life, then!” The MX-Phoenix isn’t really that scary at all. It’s a six-legged, spider-inspired robot — ...

Arachnophobes look away now, because the iC Hexapod spider robot is coming to get you! Okay, so it's not strictly a spider -- it has six legs instead of eight, hence the hexapod name, and it's not ...

Recently, a research group from Robotics Institute of Beihang University, China has developed a novel multifunctional hexapod robot with leg–arm integration which is named ALLOMAN (Arm-Leg Locomotion ...

[Photo: Joseph Schlesinger on Kicktstarter] Robots are awesome, of course, but every time I get the urge to build one, I’m always stymied by my utter lack of knowledge. I’d love to be able to get a ...

Arduino boards and the Raspberry Pi have taken the DIY computing world by storm, allowing users to create wildly inventive projects while learning programming and electronic building skills. If you’re ...

Matt Denton is a British animatronics engineer who has made robots for "Star Wars," "Harry Potter," and "Jurassic World." Denton was one of two engineers that built BB-8, the roller-ball droid from ...