LAURON V

The fifth generation of FZI's LAURON hexapods, with four joints per leg and a gripper. Height is 61 cm normally and 84 cm with legs fully extended.

Price: $200,000Cheaper than 14%
Height: 84 cmTaller than 36%
Weight: 43.5 kgHeavier than 52%
Payload: —Not published
Speed: 0.5 km/hFaster than 11%
Battery: 2 hRuns longer than 33%

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Why it matters

A stick-insect-inspired hexapod able to run fully autonomous exploration missions using 3D mapping and path planning.

Real-world use

None (research)

Timeline

First shown: 2013
Released: Not yet

Introduced by FZI Karlsruhe

Maker

FZI Research Center for Information TechnologyGovernment lab · Karlsruhe, Germany

How it stacks up

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LAURON V is taller than 36% of the 22 other legged & novel that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.

Height 84 cm 5 cm450 cm #15 of 23 · taller than 36%

Not published by the maker: payload.

Public attention

How much public attention LAURON V gets, from open data.

299 views of its Wikipedia article in the last 90 days (LAURON)
No recent press stories listed yet

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What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement: Walks on legs · 28 joints
How it runs: Assisted. Its external control center could supply speed and gait commands while onboard behaviors coordinated its legs and adapted walking to unfamiliar terrain.
Actuators & motors: 28 motors: four joints per leg with Faulhaber brushed DC motors and planetary gearheads (66:1 and 159:1), chain and worm drives; brushless motors for gripper and laser scanner.
Hands: 1-DoF gripper on a front leg; legs also used for manipulation.
Sensors & vision: Two Asus Xtion Pro Live depth cameras, two Point Grey Firefly cameras, FLIR thermal camera, Velodyne HDL-32E or custom 3D laser scanner (Hokuyo UTM-30LX), Microstrain IMU, joint encoders and motor-current sensing.
Compute: Mini-ITX Intel Core i7 main computer, Intel NUC i7 vision computer, custom DSP/FPGA leg controllers, Arduino and Raspberry Pi helpers.
Battery & power: Two 24 V 8,000 mAh lithium-polymer packs, about 2 hours; hot-swappable.
Materials & build: Aerospace aluminium legs; POM, PE and 3D-printed PLA shell parts; brass worm gears.
AI & software: Ubuntu 14.04 with ROS Indigo for high-level control (PLEXNAV framework, OMPL, OpenCV, PCL, SMACH, 3D SLAM); MCA2 behaviour-based low-level control.
Other details: About 43.5 kg; 0.5 km/h. Leg design and gaits based on the stick insect. Earlier LAURONs date to 1994.

From the maker

LAURON V is the only machine from FZI Research Center for Information Technology in the atlas.

Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price: $200,000about EUR 150,000; USD converted at roughly 2013 rates
How to get one: No official buying page found
Built: Research robot
Sold or delivered: not sold; cost about €150,000
Where it is sold or used: FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Customers and pilots: None (research)

Sources

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FZI Research Center for Information Technology LAURON arXiv LAURON VI: A Six-Legged Robot for Dynamic Walking researchgate.net LAURON V: how it is operated

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