Artifact Details

Title

Titan II Quadraped

Catalog Number

102723517

Type

Still image

Description

A part of the The Computer Museum Slide Series Five: Robots

Text from Robot Slide Series insert -
"Developed by Shigeo Hirose at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, this quadraped could perform the complicated task of feeling its way up stairs of varying heights. It had contact sensors on the sides and bottom of its feet. When these were touched, the quadraped responded with animal-like reflexes. Each leg contained an elegant mechanical device that translated small motor movements inside the body into large movements of the legs. On loan from Tokyo Institute of Technolgy, Tokyo, Japan"

Date

ca. 1988

Publisher

The Computer Museum

Place of Publication

Boston, MA

Category

Slide