I’ve seen a lot of hexapods in my life. Heck, a 480 pound hexapod was the ringbearer at our wedding.

But Matt Denton at Micro Magic Systems has made a hexapod that blows everything else away. Even bipeds. Not only is it dynamically balancing, but it can shift it’s weight over it’s feet without lifting them. Kind of like geeks when they try to dance at a hipster bar.

Watch how the ‘bot shifts its weight as Matt moves in and out. The robot not only tracks his proximity, but “keeps its distance.”

Want.
One.

[via robots-dreams]

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