Apod, the working ant robot!

Outdoor footage I made for a couple of years ago (2012). A-Pod is a hexapod robot with 3 DOF legs and total of 25 servos.

[waltermartinez]

wow 9 years ago and still looks awesome!

[Stuberto]

Your stuff is always so amazing. I always come to your channel for game-design inspiration and I never leave dissatisfied. :D

[KarachoBolzen]

What the actual ants in the grass underneath are thinking: "._. ...umm, hi, mommie!"

[piranha]

Integrate a smartphone into it to give it "senses" (cameras, microphone, accelerometer, eventually feedback from servos or other custom sensors) and an A.I (smartphones allow for a surprising lot of processing power, as well as information storage), make a swarm of them, and you're ready to take over the

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have plans for tonight, same as I do for every night...

[Archaon]

been so long since I've seen this thing in action.  great work!

[juliusschannelindeeditis]

Imagine seeing a group of these in the forest

[midnightmosesuk]

He's a bit like the robot I built. He's called A-Hole and he goes around biting people's ankles and stealing their wallets.

[TheMagicRobot]

Imagine thousands of these all working together, building things.

[simonrichter]

Haha... Reminds me to Spore™ :DD
Nice Creature :P

[jumper]

Your robots always have such fluid and beautiful movements.  I built a 4 DOF quadruped inspired by your T-Hex for a school project over the last few months and have been trying my best to figure out how to do the body translations by looking into the Phoenix code, but I'm wondering if its even possible to modify it for a quad.  Thanks for the great video!  Keep up the inspirational work!

[StabsMcCool]

I think Apod needs to be reintroduced into the wild slowly, he needs to learn you cant eat sticks..!!1!

[SoCalFreelance]

Would be fairly easy to retrofit into a scorpion.

[nickunderscorerobot]

Love your robots, I'm working on a phoenix of my own. What type of sensors/switches do you use for for the feet?

[manoi]

Hi Zenta do you want sell this hexapod RTR preprogrammed only hexapod with controller please respond me please let me know thanks have a good day Samuel

[dark-]

All the actual ants: *attack on titan intensifies*

[spartanwar]

0:30
Queue the peaceful morning music
Lol anyways
Seeing an ant-like synthetic creature move around while not being ant-sized is so odd to watch
It moves in ways that i didn't expect ants to move
But I guess they just don't need to move like that, the real ants (They probably could, i'm saying we probably don't because they usually don't have a purpose for those motions)

[C-Hirsuta]

Is it remote controlled or is it autonomous?

[aliguitar]

Great job Zenta, I like your work on A-pod, I got A-pod 3 months back, I had a one small Issue probably you can help me
to solve, I used the old Phonix codes on Basic Atomn pro, the code from Lynxmotion website. every thing working fine, except the mandibles, when I press (L1) on the controller they open, but When i press (L2) they do not close .
do you know why ? thank you

[mcsdaver]

Some day hundreds of these with AI will be running loose in the wild doing research.

[knightboulegard]

I can imagine ants praying to this as their god.