Mr. Walker

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$Mr.\; Walker$
Begin and end of the Project:$1986\; -1986$
Project costs:$$
Building effort [person years]:$6\; calendar\; months\; (1.5\; man\; years)$
Source of financial support:$Internal\; company\; funding.$

Research group

Branch & Associates Pty Ltd, Australia

Staff of the project:

Allan Branch, principle research officer
John Colegrave programmer, Piet Blokker, mechanical engineering
Ron Davies, body fabrication, Tony Branch, technician

Information via www: www.robot@southcom.com.au/~robot

Contact address:

Allan Branch, Denning Branch International (Australia)
2310 Shrub End Road, 7120, Tasmania, Australia
Tel: (03) 6265 2102, Email: robot@southcom.com.au

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length Max. speed 15cm/s Number of legs 2 Energy supply 12 volt gel cell battery

Hight Weight Act. degrees of freedom 4 Power supply

Width 0.7m Load Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption current rating averaged 0.5 ampheres

References

Developed for Radio Shack as a commercial product in 1986, not released. Tasmanian Government report dated 1987. Public appearance through Carnegie Science Museum's national robotics tour in 1997. No scientific literature, although presented at Robotics 2020 show in Johor Bahru (Malaysia) in 1995 and at the 1996 RI Spring Seminars at CMU during Dr. Branch's lecture on dynosaur walking as it relates to walking robots.

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