Lobster Robot

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$Lobster\; Robot$
Begin and end of the Project:$March\; 1,\; 1998-Feb\; 28,\; 2001$
Project costs:$$
Building effort [person years]:$$
Source of financial support:$DARPA/DSO$

Research group

Biomimetic Underwater Robot Program

Staff of the project:

Joseph Ayers, PI, Don Massa, William Vorus
Paul Zavracky, Nick McGruer, Ranjan Mukherjee, Scott Currie

Information via www: http://www.dac.neu.edu/msc/burp.html

Contact address:

Joseph Ayers, Northeastern University
Marine Science Center, East Point, Nahant, MA 01908, USA
Tel:++ 1 781 581-7370, Email: lobster@neu.edu

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 0.6m Max. speed Number of legs 8 Energy supply Battery

Hight 0.45m Weight Act. degrees of freedom 24 Power supply 12V DC

Width 0.15m Load Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 90Watt

References

http://www.dac.neu.edu/msc/biomimeticrobots98.html

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