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#News(Startup) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
Hexa, developed by the Beijing-based Vincross, is a six-legged bot with 19 servos, infrared and 720p cameras, a customizable Linux-based OS, and big ambitions—the company’s home page imagines a Hexa on Mars. The new robot mod, developed by Vincross roboticist Sun Tianqi, is “an installation project of a walking succulent plant,” Tianqi said last year in the Hexa forums.
“In 2014, I went to see a sunflower exhibition, and found myself focused on a dead sunflower near a ground of blooms. The dead flower sat in a place that was always in a shadow…I thought, if it could move a little bit, take a 30-feet walk out of the shadow to where the other sunflowers were, it would have lived healthily,” Tianqi recalls.
That dream of moving a flower got incorporated into the robot he was building at the time, the Hexa.Sun Tianqi, the project founder of HEXA plans to release his robot to over 2,000 developers in order to jump-start the evolution of the robot. Instead of monopolising the development of HEXA, he has decided to allow its “human mentors” to help the robot learn how to function in the world by open sourcing its AI. What’s more, the “head” can swivel in any direction and since it has six legs, it can immediately begin to travel in any direction that the head faces. It doesn’t have to turn around when it faces an obstacle. It can just turn its head around and move in the opposite direction. Pretty cool!
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