Scuttletron 9000
GOALS: use flexible joints and capstan drives to create a crab!
SKILLS: CAD Design, experimental design, electromechanical systems
This project was done for the MassRobotics Form and Function Challenge, but in a much more real sense I just really wanted to make a crab. My professor showed me a video of researchers who put a crab on a treadmill to understand its movement patterns, and I noticed that crabs have such a weird and unique movement pattern that I thought would be a fun challenge to recreate.
Leg Prototpying
and many, many, more unseen prototypes
Final Crab
16-Hour Endurance Test
Mass Form & Function Challenge
