The Atrax

The Atrax is a 3 DOF Australian Funnel Web Spider inspired robot, that is mainly wooden made. The parts are cut from a 3 mm plywood plate with a Dremel saw. 27 servos are dispatched as follows: 24 for legs, 2 for fangs and 1 for the abdomen.
Everything else (servos, erectors, electronics, ..) are supplied by Lynxmotion.

3 different real walking patterns are implemented:
- Scorpion (4231 seq.)
- Tarantula (4132 seq.) quite slow gait in the real life
- Metachronal (4231 seq.) common for running spiders, ticks, lobsters and crabs

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• spider
• tarantula
• robot
• atrax
• octopod
• hexapod
• funnel web
• funnel web spider
• wood
• plywood
• lynxmotion
• walking
• gait
• pattern
• fangs
• 3DOF
• black spider
• arthropod

[ChanceDFEL]

For some reason , when it knocked over the doll , I couldn't stop fucking laughing .

[drsteevo5]

soon they will destroy us all....

[peter960124]

I am wondering why the “spider” touched the doll with its hind leg？

[btjones874]

This reminds me of wild wild west

[Psychorror]

3:57 is actually kinda scary to see that thing heading towards you.

[R3Cat]

I think.. wheels might be a little bit simpler and faster means of transportation.

[blakegorman69]

How much for one of these? If you could build another one just like it, i would buy it.

[Zen420919]

0:50 ROFL! hahaha

[haven600]

times the scale by fucking 100,000,000 and you've got that giant machine from wild wild west

[itshardtofindanamee]

That's a scary robot.

[eggzeck]

Nice!

[dwayne19601]

How can i get plans to make one of these?