Overview

A spider robot modelled on the Moroccan flic-flac spider, which Professor Ingo Rechenberg of TU Berlin discovered in 2008 and later helped turn into this machine. It walks with a tripod gait on six legs, then curls those legs into a 267 mm wheel and uses the remaining two to push off and keep itself rolling. Self-locking worm gears mean it only spends energy while moving, not while standing. A showcase project shown alongside the BionicFlyingFox in 2018, never a product.

Specifications

Category	Multi-legged robots · Research & legacy
Released	2018
Country	Germany
Availability	Not for sale (research)
Programmability	No programmability
Best for	Professionals & labs
Vision sensors	No vision sensors
Actuators	Mixed
Audio	No audio
Compute type	Arduino / ESP32 / microcontroller
Compute	STM32F4 microcontroller, 866 MHz radio, controlled from a tablet
Weight	Not published (up to 570 mm long, 796 mm wide, 238 mm high)
Speed	Not published (rolls much faster than it walks, climbs slopes up to 5%)
Legs / DOF	15 DOF across 8 legs, from 14 self-locking worm-gear units and 1 servo motor
Sensors	Bosch BNO055 absolute orientation sensor (IMU)
SDK	None public