ZERO is a four legged all terrain robot designed for navigating difficult to reach areas, it is currently being developed by myself and a group of friends, Ethan, Rory and Zac. We are currently in the process of building the first of many iterations of this exciting robot, whilst MK 1 may exclude many key features, it aims to iron out any problems with the basic mobility of the robot.
As of now, we have four working legs, and ZERO is able to stand, however there is still lots of work to be completed on the electronic side until ZERO can begin to walk. In the short future we hope to complete ZERO’s electronics and wiring, including all of it’s motors and actuators and then it will be time for it’s first test.
Once the first iteration of ZERO has been completed work will begin on implementing more features into the robot. In it’s current form ZERO is only able to walk on level surfaces, however through the use of 3D scanning technology, we hope that ZERO will be able to walk on uneven surfaces automatically without the need to control each individual leg. We are currently unsure as to how we will do this though, we have considered using an X-Box Kinect as it offers the 3D scanning technology we require, and lots of work has been done into how it can be modified for different uses.
ZERO still has a very long journey ahead of it and we will be posting any and all updates here, and are eager to here any recommendations or advice for the future of the build.
