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Brian, your rock crawler is quite interesting to me because you've rediscovered
the design of a real-world reconnaissance robot:
http://www.firstresponserobotics.com/
The designer is related to my boss in some manner that I can't recall, but he
was up at our office last summer showing us videos of the robot and having us
help him design some promotional materials.
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In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Jordan Bradford wrote:
> you've rediscovered the design of a real-world
> reconnaissance robot...
well, in all honesty I shamelessly implemented a solution I had already known
about: PackBot by iRobot. I won't remotely claim the idea originated with me, as
it didn't. I was inspired by the "real world" here.
That said, I'd not run across the link you posted - thanks. I wonder if
FirstResponseRobots and iRobot have ever gotten into infringment lawsuites (or,
perhaps, who actually holds the patents on this sort of system; it may be
neither company).
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Brian Davis
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The second set of arms on Mike's robot gives it better mobility. They make its
overall tread length much longer, so it can treat stairs like a ramp instead of,
well, stairs, and that makes it faster at climbing them. The arms also let it
raise the entire chassis over certain obstacles, and it doesn't have to turn
around to use its arms because it has them on both ends.
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