Japanese researchers have a robot with four arms and six tracks have been developed that debris should go clean up and save lives at difficult accessible places. The robot was created by a collaboration between Waseda University and the Kikuchi Corporation.
The name Octopus comes from the eight ‘limbs’: the four arms, and four tracks which are also vertically can be rotated. The robot is 1.7 meters high and weighs 700 kg. In addition to the use of the limbs, the robot can also be equipped with a laser that stone can cutting, a gripper that debris can clean up and containing radioactive material, and fire can extinguish the fire, writes the university.
If the robot over difficult terrain to drive, can he the two achterarmen use to sustain itself, while the vehicle with the front legs and crawler climbs. Each arm can function independently and objects lift up to 200kg. At this point, the robot is still two people to be controlled, but the goal is that the operation eventually by one operator, it can happen.
In addition to the possibility in disaster zones to work, the designers are also opportunities in supporting roles in the ageing population of Japan and without a further explanation.
