Lightweight and Slim Hexapod Giacometti Robot

Suzumori Endo Lab at Tokyo Institute of Technology in collaboration with A2Lab, UTM has developed a lightweight and slim Giacometti Walking Robot. The robot has 0.94 m height, 1.67 m width, 1.5 m length and 3.7 kg weight. The development of Hexapod Giacometti Robot has a simple structural design using soft and thin soft actuator and CFRP material. The motivation of this work is to make the robot safe to work with the operator. The damage to the robot and the surroundings would be very small if an accident occurs. We hope for more exploration on big and safety robots in the future robotics.
Project members:
A.A.M Faudzi, K.Suzumori, G.Endo, S.Kurumaya
What is Giacometti Robotics?
Giacometti Robotics is a concept of new robotics, which was proposed by Prof. Koichi Suzumori from Tokyo Tech. in 2015 [1]. The robotic concept is named after a Swiss sculpture, Alberto Giacometti where most of his artistic style of design is to remove excess fat of the subject. Inspired by the concept, our aims for practical robot design feature light, slim and simple body structure resulting in essential safety and functional robot using thin McKibben actuators.
[1] Koichi Suzumori, "New Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Realizing Giacometti Robotics and Soft Robotics", The 6th International Conference on Manufacturing, Machine Design and Tribology, No. 15-204, pp.4-5, 2015.
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goddamn, beautiful engineering! looks like a praying mantis walking ahah

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It's made out of water bottles! xD GG