SICO T7 is a COG (center of gravity) shifting biped. His name is properly pronounced “psycho” and not “sicko”. His name is actually an acronym and has a bit of history behind it. One of the first COG-shifting bipeds was built back in late 1999, by Mario and Giulio Ferrari, and was named S6. My robot was based on S6 and is therefore called T7 in its honor. The acronym goes something like this: Keeping S6 in thought, my robots names is… Similar In Comparison Otherwise T7. Interesting!
More on SICO T7: he belongs to a class of bipeds that are known as COG shifting. They are called this because they shift a portion of their weight, also called a ballast, to one side to change their COG. This done, the robot can advance that one leg because of the weight change. Although this procedure is not exactly elegant in these robots, this is the way you and I walk! In my robot, the heaviest piece in the RIS set (and probably one of the heaviest LEGO pieces too!) is used as the ballast. To find out more about how SICO T7 works, check out the Mechanics tab at the top |
