<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4e9c1683-3f92-4713-b84d-737eea4b55c8/309E79D7-2A40-4D76-868C-3C09E423EE27/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1839" href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1839" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.zdnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1839"><H1>Resilient cockroach-inspired robot survives large falls, dashes off</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1839"><P>IEEE Spectrum <A href="http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/robotics-software/automaton/dash-hexapedal-cockroach-inspired-robot">writes</A> of a small resilient robot created by Paul Birkmeyer and Prof. Ronald Fearing at the <A href="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Biomimetics.html">Biomimetic Millisystems Lab</A> at UC Berkeley.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1839"><P>Aptly called DASH (Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod), the six-legged insect-inspired robot can reach speeds of 1.5 meters per second and is flexible/strong enough to be dropped from a height of 28 meters without breaking. A single DC motor powers the legs and a small servomotor to slightly deform the robot’s body, allowing it to make turns.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1839"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LsTKAtBBkfU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/" href="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/" style="font-size: 11px;">robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><DIV> <FONT size="+2"><A name="Prototyping_Folded_Robots"></A>Prototyping Folded Robots</FONT> <FONT size="+2"> </FONT></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/img/A90B9276-39BE-4943-9E93-8919D4F1A096" alt="side-by-side crawlers" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><B>Step 1: The Drawing</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/img/2585C19F-110D-4D82-B618-9415271D6AD8" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><B>Step 2: Cutting the Flexures</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/img/4802A2A0-D346-491B-8589-DC3655295E23" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><B>Step 3: Flexure Layer Insertion</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/img/742946A0-2B95-4DA0-B1FE-2200909EDC83" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><B>Step 4: Laminating</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; 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margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/img/181E4D28-6477-4006-BED6-AB85AE026FE5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><SPAN> Example Structures</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><SPAN>SMA Driven Crawler</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/img/A669AF6E-4127-496E-B5BD-EA50B3F82A4C" alt="motor crawler" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><DIV> Micromechanical Flying Insect</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/img/C8CB88CC-DD15-4E13-B7F0-846AEE57DF65" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD rowspan="1" colspan="2"> <A name="OTHER_MATERIALS"></A> <SPAN> Prototyping using other Materials</SPAN> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/img/C31E4C2A-04C5-49FA-8FC5-EA610F1A616D" alt="Fiberglass crawler" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/309E79D7-2A40-4D76-868C-3C09E423EE27/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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