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 Post subject: Wells' fantasy becomes reality, A tripod really can walk.
PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:30 pm 
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If you thought Wells' tripods couldn't walk think again. here's a link to three short films showing a real tripod walking.
STriDER is a three-legged robot that walks
http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/2007/10/08/this_three_legged_robot_walks_l.html

It's poetry in motion.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:51 am 
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Love it. The martian hood would have to somehow stay upright. But that could be done. Very alien mode of walking.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:08 pm 
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I second what Loz said.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:18 pm 
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Loz wrote:
Love it. The martian hood would have to somehow stay upright. But that could be done. Very alien mode of walking.

Yes in one of the film clips it shows you strider being used for reconnaissance, presumably with a camera and a light how would they orientate those without a fixed base?

Still it looks cool. :lol:


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:47 pm 
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Perhaps they made the legs like that and built the rest around it. At least it represents the "Walking Engine of Glittering Metal" exactly.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:42 pm 
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oever532 wrote:
Perhaps they made the legs like that and built the rest around it.

That's the trouble, there is no immobile surface to build the body on, as the machine walks the top surface of the platform becomes the underside of the platform, there is no surface that remains a constant.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:40 am 
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Not even if the surface is completely round like a ball?


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I can't see how, because the leg section of strider has to be free to rotate which means completely independent of any body section.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:46 pm 
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In any case, we're getting close to make our own 'Tripods' now. All we need to do is to make variations of them, and try to make them match the walking pattern of the Martian counterparts...


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That should not be too hard to do. Then we can invade Mars!


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Xuxa the White wrote:
That should not be too hard to do. Then we can invade Mars!

Yeah! Preemptive revenge. that'll teach em' :lol:


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:43 pm 
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That is, if we can FIND them...


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