Showing posts with label Matt Denton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matt Denton. Show all posts

Friday, April 19, 2013

Mantis, a terrifying 6-terrain robot legs

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There are all kinds of strange inventions, but this is one of the most terrifying we have seen in recent years. What we have here is a kind of robot capable of walking legs 6 by all kinds of terrain. It is known as Mantis and its creator is Matt Denton, chief designer and founder of Micromagic Systems, where the Mantis has been in development for about four years. To function has a diesel engine of 2.2 liter capacity.
Now we ask ourselves how we control a machine like this? Due to its height of 2.8 meters and a weight of 1900kg (almost 2 tons), Mantis control is via a WiFi connection, but do not have all the details. As we said, the machine is driving all types of terrain except water obviously. The only bad thing is that it is a very fast machine, so probably it becomes difficult to prosecute someone if those are your plans.
Unfortunately, the Mantis is not for sale, but still would have been difficult to find a suitable garage for storage.
If we see the Mantis in action in this video we can do down here.