snake like robots

souryu:-
snake robots are also known as serpentine robots.as the name suggests, these robots possess multiple actuatedjoints thus mulitple degrees of freedom.this gives them superior ability to flex, reach, and approach ahuge volume in its workspace with infinte number of configurations.this redundance in configurations gives them the technical name:hyper redundant robots. ideally, the future snake design will consist of three degree of freedom stages - roll, pitch, and extension.souryu or blue dragon, is a remote-controlled robot designed bytokyo institute of technology's professor shigeo hirose.the snake-like souryu crawls using six tracks, two on each side of its three-part body. it is equipped with a camera and microphone to search for victims, and can bend at the joints or roll over on its side to maneuver through rubble.

TYPES OF PRIMITIVE ROBOS

1) snake like robots
2)spider like robots
3)legged walking robots



most of today's robots operate with a program written by humans. in order to develop a robot that can think and move like a 5-year-old, we have to first understand the mechanism of how human brains work,' mitsuo kawato, chief of the computational neuroscience laboratories at the kyoto-based advanced telecommunications
research institute internationa said, admitting the difficulty of his project. 'that will be equal to understanding human beings.'

the project was inspired by the popular robot animation series'tetsuwan atom' by the late cartoonist osamu tezuka (unlike cartoonist tezuka's 'atom' character, known as 'astro boy' overseas, based on an image of a 9-year-oldboy, the atom project aims to create a humanoid robot with the physical, intellectual and emotional capacity of a 5-year-old that would be able to think and move on its own). the researchers say it would help promote scientific and technological advances in japan, just like the u.s. apollo project, which not only succeeded in landing men on the moon but contributed to a broad range of technological breakthroughs - a project of this magnitude would inject much-needed vigor into a nation depressed from years of economic slump.

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ROBOTICS

Robotics brings together several very different engineering areas and skills. There is metalworking for the body. There is mechanics for mounting the wheels on the axles, connecting them to the motors and keeping the body in balance. You need electronics to power the motors and connect the sensors to the controllers. At last you need the software to understand the sensors and drive the robot around.
This blog tries to cover all the key areas of robotics as a hobby. When possible examples from industrial robots will be addressed too.
You'll notice very few "exact" values in these texts. Instead, vague terms like "small", "heavy" and "light" will be used. This is because most of the time you'll have a lot of freedom in picking these values, and all robot projects are unique in available materials.

ROBOTICS

Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots.[3] Robotics is related to the sciences of electronics, engineering, mechanics, and software.
A robot is a mechanical contraption which can perform tasks on its own, or with guidance. In practice a robot is usually an electromechanical machine which is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous or semi-autonomous and come in those two basic types: those which are used for research into human-like systems, such as ASIMO and TOPIO, and those for more defined and specific roles, such as nano and swarm robots; and helper robots which are used to make or move things or perform menial or dangerous tasks, such as industrial robots or mobile or servicing robots. Another common characteristic is that, by its appearance or movements, a robot often conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own.