Trilobot - Dan Roe

Go to http://www.danroe.net/ for high resolution images of this sculpture and many others.

Description: This minimally designed sculptural robot is entirely solar powered, so it's autonomous in energy acquisition. It is also autonomous in control
since its compound eyes differentially control rostral and caudal legs producing a weak phototropism, while its sensitive motors respond unpredictably to one another
and to the surface they are moving over.

This sculpture is designed with open source BEAM circuits and off the shelf technologies (including o-rings and hose clamps).

Trilobot is a complex machine in the tradition of W. Grey Walter or Valentino Braitenberg. In circuit design and philosophy it is inspired by the likes of Mark Tilden, David Hrynkiw and the BEAM community. Its mechanical design is influenced by among others Robert Full's investigations into nature's mechanisms. Materials and aesthetic influences include Arthur Ganson and Theo Jansen.

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• art
• artificial
• life
• solar
• power
• kinetic
• trilobot
• robot
• sculpture
• sculptural
• robotics
• dan
• roe
• machine
• complexity
• evolution
• beAm
• 1381
• Walter
• Braitenberg
• Tilden
• Ganson
• Jansen
• Hollinger
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• Quay

[Jabmechtech]

NICE!!!! what circuit are you using..?

[dlroe]

@Jabmechtech Thanks, I'm just using a couple 1381 circuits. You can find many similar circuits on the BEAM wiki and other places online.

[illustriouschin]

your hand wont be there to push it when it gets stuck on mars

[bjeah]

Make it waterproof, then sell these.

[MinaBassilious]

This is fantastic! I really like this bot and I really respect you for creating it. Well done : )

[raffyturc]

hey! nice locomotive :) so how does the photo-tropism work? if the other side is dark, fire front motor1 else front motor2?

[marcuelcajon]

REAL NICE!

[vanjastanic]

Great work!!!

[crackmaster88]

i like this video cuz it don't have dislikes :)

[keithosmarferrer]

neat,

it is like a robot from NASA to mars,good in rocky places.

[wiipronhi]

could you make a vidio tutorial for that wicked robot