Blake Belladonna

Lauda Neill

Battle for Amphibia : Marcy Wu

Since the first sketches, I felt I needed to expand more my ideas and to make you discover all about that AU.

So here is BfA!Marcy !!

More to come on this as it progresses, but I've been constructing a robotics project heavily based upon work by the Max Planck Institute robot called Bird Bot. This leg design is biologically inspired, using bird legs (such as the Emu) as inspiration. The design has been found to be very energy efficient, which is one of the motivations for my own use over a Boston Dynamics style spot robot dog design choice. Here is an image from the researcher's own paper to show the general design.

Below is the robot that the Max Planck Institute Researchers created. The researchers do have their own 3D print files for anyone to use if they want to re-create this exact design.

For my own purposes, I'm using my own leg designs created from scratch, but taking heavy inspiration from the above. The mechanism has been taken directly from this research paper.

Early stages of prototyping in progress using the 3D printer, with round 2 on the way. I'm definitely more of a software person, than an electronics/robot person, so I'm not attempting anything completely experimental and new!

With the MARVINA AI system, I think this platform will be far better suited to actually interacting with people than the Roomba (as sweet as the Roomba is) .