Where to find good pictures

The following pictures may be copied provided that attribution of the source is provided: Mark R. Cutkosky, Stanford University Center for Design Research

Stickybot and Stickybot-III

Stickybot-III: the latest version of Gecko-inspired climbing, with 4 DOF/leg (spring 2010)

• Parent page with details: StickyBotIII
• Archive of StickybotIII images

Stickybot: the original Gecko-inspired climbing robot with dry, directional adhesion (spring 2006)

• Parent page with details: http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/bin/view/Rise/StickyBot
• Archive of Stickybot images

Spinybot

Insect-inspired climbing robot with microspines (fall-winter 2004)

• Parent page: http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/bin/view/Rise/SpinyBot
• download .zip archive of various pictures at higher resolution

RiSE Platform

Insect-inspired platform from Boston Dynamics in collaboration with the RiSEConsortiumMembers (spring 2004)

• Parent page: http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/bin/view/Rise/RiSEatSWRIapril06
• higher resolution image of RiSE on a building
• Contact Boston Dynamics directly for more and better images.

Sprawlita

Cockroach-inspired running hexapod (created January 2000)

• Parent page: http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/biomimetics/documents/sprawl
• various higher resolution images: http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/biomimetics/documents/sprawlita/SDM_pics/
  • Example: P0000890.JPG

Sprawlettes

Highly versatile cockroach-inspired running hexapods (created 2001)

• Parent page: http://cdr.stanford.edu/biomimetics/sprawlettes.html
• Various higher resolution images: Sprawlette.zip

iSprawl

Autonomous all-electric version of Sprawlita (created summer-fall 2003)

• Parent page: http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/bin/view/Rise/IndependentSprawl
• benchtop image
• Other higher resolution pictures: http://bdml.stanford.edu/iSprawl/PicsJune04/

-- MarkCutkosky - 09 Jun 2006