Genghis
Genghis was a six-legged robot built by Rodney Brooks at MIT in the 1980s. It demonstrated how complex behaviors such as crawling can emerge from a network of simple, decentralized controllers.
FEATURES
Equipped with modular subsystems and a subsumption architecture (a control approach linking limited, task-specific perception directly to action).
HEIGHT
N/A cm | N/A in
LENGTH
35 cm | 13.8 in
WIDTH
25 cm | 9.8 in
WEIGHT
1 kg | 2.2 lb
SPEED
N/A km/h | N/A mph
SENSORS
12 force sensors, six pyroelectric infrared sensors, two inclinometers, two touch-sensitive whiskers.
ACTUATORS
12 model airplane position-controllable servomotors
POWER
Three silver-zinc batteries
COMPUTING
Four on-board 8-bit microprocessors linked by a 62.5 kilobaud token ring. Total memory of 1 KB of RAM and 10 KB of EPROM.
SOFTWARE
Distributed control system with incremental software layers (for controlling different behaviors).
DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOF)
12
MATERIALS
N/A
COST
N/A
STATUS
Discontinued