26 November
2008

Third member of Aqua robot family

Last night we finally finished off the third version of the Aqua robot family. Like the other two revisions of the hardware, this is a hexapod (6 legged) robot that can either swim or walk. Version 2 was smaller, more compact and a lot more capable than version 1. This third model includes more custom electronics and a gigabit-over-optical-fiber ethernet interface for high-speed data logging.

The software has also changed a fair bit, but most of the good parts are back-ported to the other versions of the robot, so that's not really a distinguishing feature. It's leaving for it's new home at York University where it will be used in the lab of my colleague and collaborator Mike Jenkin.

Aqua robot family
(oldest Aqua 1 robot on left)

Posted by dudek at 08:48 November 26, 2008 | Read (1) or Leave a comment | permalink link to this entry |

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Re: Third member of Aqua robot family

KROY enjoyed the warm waters of Barbados, and is even now pining to return.

Posted by: KROY at January 27,2009 21:46

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