HAMR: The Harvard Ambulatory MicroRobot

The Harvard Ambulatory MicroRobot, or HAMR for short, is a six-legged robot modeled after a cockroach. This video shows the motion of the "artificial muscles" (made from piezoelectric material) that drive the leg mechanism, and a prototype of the robot walking at different speeds.

The Harvard Microrobotics Lab is part of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS, seas.harvard.edu) at Harvard University, and a core member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (wyss.harvard.edu).

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Science & Technology

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• cockroach
• robot
• hexapod
• microrobot