Stickybot III in front of the d.school in Peterson high resolution version

Stickybot III What's new? Frequently Asked Questions Videos SBIII on NOVA: Making Stuff: Smarter (Gecko-inspired climbing at 10:40) Stickybot III on Stanford Report YouTube Channel Stickybot III on CNN (External link) SBIII at various angles climbing glass in the MERL lobby. (H.264, 720x480) New feet and ankles 25Jan2011 (2 MB Quicktime m4v) Stickybot III climbing on polished granite. (H.264, 720x480) What do kids think about Stickybot III? (H.264, 720x480) Raw HD Videoclips for download, with attribution: SB3_15DEC2010 Images SBIII-photos.zip: High resolution photos of SBIII on glass, wood, painted metal Concepts Mechanical Mechanical concepts include foot flexures, leg linkages and tail design. Electrical Electrical concepts include the high-speed communication bus and PCB design. Software Software concepts include the distributed firmware architecture and run-time gait uploader.

Operating Instructions can be found at SB3Instructions. Gait Coding Instructions can be found at SB3GaitEncoding

Overview

Stickybot III is the third iteration of the StickyBot platform. It has four legs, each with four degrees of freedom including actuation at the wrist to expand beyond vertical-only climbing of the first platform. Each motor has a local microprocessor-based servo controller. The feet are detachable, to allow us to interchange our various climbing technologies. Stickybot III can currently climb at 5 cm/sec. The robot has a snout-vent length of 36 cm, and the tail adds an additional 40 cm.

Goals

• Reliable platform with low down-time.
• More freedom in motor actuation to allow new climbing research.
• Interchangeable feet.
• Actuation at the wrist to expand beyond vertical-only climbing.

What's New

09 Feb 2011: StickyBotIII appears in NOVA "Making Stuff: Smarter"

25 Jan 2011: Climbing with new feet and ankles: 2 MB Quicktime m4v - ElliotHawkes:

24 Aug2010: StickyBotIII and her new adhesives featured in Stanford Report, with subsequent coverage on CNN

14 Jul 2010: Several copies of AdhesiveDemonstrator made and distributed with the idea that if other adhesive technologies work on the demonstrator, they should work on StickyBotIII as well.

1 Jun 2010: After much work on new ankles, pads, etc. Stickybot-III is now climbing about as well as old StickyBot did:

• SBIII on granite slab at Mitchell Bldg. (H.264, 1280x720)

There is much room for future improvements in speed and in maneuvering, taking advantage of the rotating ankles to allow motion in various directions along a wall while keeping the directional adhesive pads loaded in their preferred direction.

Video links on BDML:

• other vid. link (300 MB)
• mv4 version (95 MB)