Matt Bunting creates a sophisticated robotic spider

Matt Bunting, an electrical engineering student in Tucson, Arizona has developed a particularly successful hexapod robot. This is a robot spider that moves in all directions with incredible flexibility and with legs that are both, joined and independent. The student project is so successful that the world of robotics wants to reap his skills. Already at the age of 12, Bunting built a Lego car equipped with a webcam to chase his cat in the house. While in high school, he built a remote-controlled golf cart. But his greatest achievement is probably this hexapod, which is currently the attention of the American media. Anthony Lewis, his instructor at Robotics and Neural Systems Laboratory (RNSL) at the University of Arizona, has asked his students to build a prototype robot using what they had learned from the classroom lessons. Bunting came with this spider and his teacher was left speechless. He then said it was the first time in his career that he saw a prototype this complex and sophisticated. Keep this name in mind: Matt Bunting. On the technical side, the hexapod is equipped with Robotis AX-12, RX-10 and RX-28 servo-motors. The controller is a Fit-PC2 with an Intel Atom Z530 processor and runs on the Ubuntu 9.04 system. A customized PIC18F4550 USB control panel makes everything work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ovrT8pWww source: Fox News.