Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Moon here, please respond

Hi everyone, today we were able to test our beloved pesapod on the trials ground for the first time and results were amazing. Climate is not quite lunar, but really weird actually. During the day we are facing freezing temperatures is full sunlight and sometimes a cloud gets low enough and passes right through our camp. It's the first time we ever seen such kind of "horizontal rain"

Sunday, October 12, 2008

pESApod is our friend



Friday, October 10, 2008

Head.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

"pESApod, come forth!"

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Sunday of control

Sunday night in the lab.

Tuning the low-level controllers has been harder than expected, but we ended coming up with a satisfying dynamic performance.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

pESApod is within us!

This morning we have finished to assemble the robot structure. In the picture you can see pESApod standing on its own legs for the first time!


The robot has then been carried to Pontedera's lab where our control specialists are working to give it the breath of life!


As you can see, pESApod is designed to fit perfectly in a Fiat Punto boot!