ZZZ online | Number 120

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Troody is (or was, I guess) a two-legged robotic replica of a Troodon dinosaur from the Cretaceous period, checking in at a hieght of 45 cm (about 18 inches – the robot not the dino) at the hips when standing , about 1.3 meters (about 4 feet) from tip of snout to end of tail, sporting over fourteen servo motors (with 16 degrees (axis) of freedom of motion) and a gyroscope, loaded with a TMS320c30 DSP (for CPU, I honestly don’t know what this is – perhaps someone can enlighten me in the discussion board) some DRAM and flash memory (for use when the device is untethered) and powered by NiMh 24v metal halide batteries (good for 30 minutes worth of charge- they decided against hydraulics so this baby is all electric), with everything together checking in at just about 4.5kg ( 10lbs). The robot can operate stand-alone (autonomous operation, guided by on board sensor input, and special “walking” algorithms), by joystick remote control, or by a host computer via a serial line.

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