Robotic Turtle?

[KJELL]

How about to make a Robotic Turtle? There is plenty of space for all gadgets inside a Turtle. You only need two Wiggle Fan-Flapper with only one motor in each flapping leg.
Kjell

[titus]

Hi KJELL,
I know 3 robot turtles projetcts:

1) MADELEINE from Vassar College:
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYCI90uDkY0
Web: http://faculty.vassar.edu/jolong/jolong.html

2) The AQUAROBOT from 3 Canadian Universities:
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA8TjJfpe4Q
Web: http://www.aquarobot.net

3) The Flapping Foil Vehicle from MIT:
Web (with videos in Media Page): http://web.mit.edu/towtank/www/

Does someone know other major projects?

Titus

[titus]

Hi,
I found another turtle projet: Turtletron
Here are 2 videos:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=W2n7FcbWrtQ
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ehAvm3fm8ig
And a description of the project:
http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece445/projects/spring2006/project26_proposal.doc

Regards

Titus