{"id":735,"date":"2017-04-21T03:17:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T03:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robolit.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2018-04-08T06:57:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T06:57:28","slug":"dancing-hexapod-swarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/en\/2017\/04\/21\/dancing-hexapod-swarms\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Hexapod Swarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_730\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-730\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-4.42.40-AM-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-4.42.40-AM-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-4.42.40-AM-768x399.png 768w, https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-4.42.40-AM.png 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Intel Edison powered hexapod robots designed by the Intel research team.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A blast from the past. In 2015 Robolit participated in the Intel Developer Forum as a design consultant as part of the keynote speaker technology demonstration. We were tasked with making a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/en\/projects\/dancing-hexapod-swarm\/\">50 member hexapod robot swarm to dance to the Up Town Funk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of our work we produced the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FCY86Lpm7qY\">World&#8217;s first Mexican wave by robots<\/a>. A lighting effect added into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotrobots.com\/marauder\/\">Marauder<\/a>, a hexapod with unique sliding mode locomotion mechanism, transformed the machine into a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Wars\">Starwars<\/a> character. A list of video clips from this work can be found at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL3rtjygA_zv8-pNY5CFIHTslmGtWWROhr\">Robolit YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blast from the past. In 2015 Robolit participated in the Intel Developer Forum as a design consultant as part of the keynote speaker technology demonstration. We were tasked with making a 50 member hexapod robot swarm to dance to the Up Town Funk. In the course of our work we produced the World&#8217;s first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[148],"tags":[156,154,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}