With six legs, the hexapod tootles along quite happily at 26 cm/s. But cut one of its front legs in half and, attempting to walk with the same gait, it manages only 8 cm/s.

Softmax action selection gives a nice balance between explorative and exploitative behavior. Once a gait is well learned, there is a small probability that the hexapod will explore other state ...

Weighing in at a little over two tons, Mantis is likely the biggest robot hexapod you’ve ever seen. Mantis walks on six ground-sensing hydraulic legs, carrying a human in its thoracic cockpit or being ...

Toddler vs. Hexapod We've previously posted a number of articles and videos about autonomous and remote control vehicles here at GeekDad.

Different gaits produced by different patterns — okay, they don’t look that different, but they definitely are. That’s what Minati was looking into, and his hexapod robot is certainly a ...

The hexapod has a built-in camera for live streaming video, is able to climb stairs and move over other obstacles, can roll over and right itself if it gets flipped, is able to navigate through ...

Meet Stompy. He's a hexapod – a six-legged robot being built by a team of 15 students and three instructors at Artisan's Asylum in Somerville, Massachusetts. And if the rendering above didn't ...