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Superbots climb, roll, shapeshift and carry a camera



Wei-Min Shen

ISI


Posted: Mar 2, 2007

SoCal researchers recently made available videos of “SuperBot,” “identical modular units that plug into each other to create robots that can stand, crawl, wiggle and even roll.”

Follow the links below to view .wmv files of some of the videos:

Rope climbing between buildings:
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/ropeclimber.wmv
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/fastropeclimber.wmv

Rolling:
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/rollingtrack1.wmv

Caterpillar on beach and in room:
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/beach-caterpillar.wmv
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/rough-catapillar.wmv
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/caterpillar.wmv
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/ninja-caterpillar.wmv
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/hard-at-work.wmv

Climbing on sand dune, river bank, and in room:
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/sand-climber.wmv
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/climbcreek.wmv
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/carpet-climber.wmv

Sidewindering:
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/sidewinder7mod.wmv

Climbing on a fishing net:
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/netclimb1.wmv
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/netclimb2.wmv

Carrying a camera:
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/climberCam.wmv

Walking:
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/walker1.wmv

Butterflying:
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/t-swim.wmv
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/creep.wmv

Collaborations:
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/synch-swim.wmv

Searching and connecting:
http://www.isi.edu/robots/superbot/movies/Feb2007/docking.wmv


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