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October 4th, 2006

Can you do the worm?

One of my first robots was a wheeled robot that moved sort of like an inch worm.  Well, graduate film student, Josh Greenbaum, stumbled across a video of the robot and asked if it could play a sock as the lead character in a movie he is making.  Unfortunately, given the design of the robot (specifically, the wheels), placing a sock over it would compromise the worm-like movement Josh needs.  I’d told him I’d ask our readers because I know the NXT community loves challenges.

So does anybody have any design ideas or is up for the challenge of creating a worm sock bot to star in Josh’s film?  You’d probably want to keep it small to fit in a sock and have a motor to control each of its three joints.