MorpHex: Morphing Hexapod

This is an awesome project or robot by KÃ¥re Halvorsen (aka Zenta). It is a sphere shaped hexapod that Zenta is planning to give the following features:

• Roll freely like a ball
• Have different sort of locomotion for moving in any direction
• Variable inner-body dimensions
• Transform from a sphere shape into a hexapod and vice versa
• Walk like a hexapod

Closed body:

Expanded body:

A strange form of attack pose:

Sphere mode:

Some standing poses:

Standard pose with closed body:

Standard pose with fully expanded body and upper sphere sections:

MorpHex video: