Hitch said that when the company asked customers to describe the robot, «nobody realized it was two meters tall» because they focused on
the smaller robot body (resembling the Star Wars cylindrical robot R2 - D2) and not its tower, which comprises the bulk of the robot's height of around 6.5 feet.
Not exact matches
Another thing Bossa Nova did was to design the
robots to look more «friendly» to humans by installing a
small display screen and lighting on its
small body.
A tiny
robot with moves inspired by caterpillars and jellyfish is
small enough to crawl, walk and swim inside the human
body.
Small electronic sensors inside it collect data on the
robot's precise position in the
body.
It has broad shoulders on a short
body, a bulky belly, and a relatively
small head that looks to be split in the middle like Horizon's Scrapper
robot.
They then fitted a
small battery and circuit board within the tube, generating a current to heat the wire at certain segments along the
body: As a segment reaches a certain temperature, the wire contracts around the
body, squeezing the tube and propelling the
robot forward..