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The cricket micro-robot project was a collaborative project by an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students as part of the DARPA Distributed Robotics (DR) program.
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This project was active from 1998 until 2002
The goal of the cricket project was to develop a micro autonomous legged robot capable of traversing a variety of terrains. A micro-robot is no larger than 5 cm in any dimension. Due to the scale of the robot many components were developed as part of the project to provide actuation and sensing capabilities.
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The technologies developed were tested on several prototype platforms as well as in the development of a series of Cricket Carts. The technologies were finally used in the construction of a full six-legged micro cricket.