We first heard about [Robert Stephenson]’s robotic baby dinosaur a few years ago, and recently he made some upgrades.
Roboceratops V2 utilizes 10 servos in the jaw, neck, tail, and front and back legs with 16 degrees of freedom—the two front legs each got an additional degree of freedom in the upgrade. [Robert] is currently in the process of swapping out the Hitec HS645 MGs for higher-torque new Power XLDs.
The older version had aluminum legs covered with upholstery foam, but [Robert] has fine-tuned the design. The head, body, and legs are made of laser-cut MDF sanded to give a much more natural, bone-like rounding. Finally, to better make utilize of the new servos [Robert] rewrote the gait engine, providing Robosaurus a much more natural motion as it adjusts its center of gravity with each step.
So, for the next version are all of us on board for simulated skin?