{DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WALKING ROBOT]

The origin of robotics can be traced back to the ancient Greeks, who created movable
statues. Around 270 BC, Ctesibus (a Greek engineer) made organs and water clocks with
movable figures. The word robot was first used in 1921 play titiled R.U.R. Tossum's
Universal Robots by Czechoslovakian writer Karek Capek. The word robot is a Czech
word for workers. The play described mechanical servants, the "robots'. When therobots
were endowed with emotion, they turned on their masters and destroyed them. Walking
robots are essential especially when mobile robots can't reach a certain place. Agood
example would be climbing stairs or go on rough terrain. Each leg ofthe walking robot
can analyze the balancing ofthe robot, thus de-counters it so that the robot would stay in
position and would not fall. Volcanoes and well as for other rough terrain area uses
legged robot to pursue. With the help ofsensors to locate its position, walking robots can
easily conquer an area. This report contains a project on design and implementation ofa
six legged walking robot. The robot is power using DC source and servo motors. With a
chip, PIC16F84 as its brain, the robot is capable ofmanoeuvring itself and avoid any
obstacles along its way. Analysis and research on the material to be used, electrical
components as well as the constructions is also in this report. All coding for the
microcontroller were done in Clanguage and compiled using the PIC CCompiler.
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