{"id":158246,"date":"2023-02-16T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/spidar-a-groundbreaking-spider-like-robot-is-ready-to-change-robotics"},"modified":"2023-02-16T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:27:16","slug":"spidar-a-groundbreaking-spider-like-robot-is-ready-to-change-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/spidar-a-groundbreaking-spider-like-robot-is-ready-to-change-robotics","title":{"rendered":"SPIDAR: A groundbreaking spider-like robot is ready to change robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lLvsxmJUyCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thrusters may provide propulsion in any direction and can \u201croll\u201d around the limb.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the University of Tokyo\u2019s SPIDAR, the backronym of \u201cSpherIcally vectorable and Distributed rotors assisted Air-ground amphibious quadruped Robot,\u201d with multimodal locomotion capability.<\/p>\n<p>How does it work?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Moju Zhao.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-pound robot SPIDAR employs servos on its movable limbs that are lightweight but insufficiently powerful to allow it to stand by itself. This keeps it light enough to fly without a jet engine, but it also means that the spider must maintain a continual bounce to maintain its upright position.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/spidar-a-groundbreaking-spider-like-robot-is-ready-to-change-robotics\">Continue reading \u201cSPIDAR: A groundbreaking spider-like robot is ready to change robotics\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thrusters may provide propulsion in any direction and can \u201croll\u201d around the limb. Meet the University of Tokyo\u2019s SPIDAR, the backronym of \u201cSpherIcally vectorable and Distributed rotors assisted Air-ground amphibious quadruped Robot,\u201d with multimodal locomotion capability. How does it work? Moju Zhao. The 33-pound robot SPIDAR employs servos on its movable limbs that are lightweight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}