Insight into Hexapods and its Top 8 Benefits That You Need to Know

Hexapod Robot is a robot that has six legs. Hexapods are used in applications where there is rough, erratic terrain or stair-climbing that too inside a house to the search-and-rescue operations in a very hazardous disaster zones.

Let us look at the top few benefits of using the hexapod robots over wheeled, octopedal, quadrupedal and bipedal robots:

1. The wheeled robots are much fast on flat surfaces in comparison to the legged robots. However, they are awful on bumpy terrain wherein the legged robots surpass. The research studies have proved that to have a robot with more than six legs does not increase the walking speed, hence hexapods are the best and fastest among legged robots.
2. The legged robots like hexapods can easily move over the uneven ground, the obstacles and use footholds to maximize the stability unlike the wheeled robots that just require an even flat surface.
3. Even if some of the legs of hexapod malfunction or get damaged still it can travel by changing the walking mechanism.
4. Hexapods can make use of one or more of its legs and hands to complete the dexterous tasks to maintain stability even while travelling.
5. A Hexapod is set to be very stable as here up to five legs are in contact with the ground when traveling. Even if there is a tripod gait that walks in which the three legs move simultaneously at a time, the center of gravity of a hexapod constantly stays within the tripod.
6. In comparison to the wheeled or tracked robots, legged robots like the hexapods have less environmental effects as their leg tips can touch the ground as their surface area is low.
7. Hexapods show toughness, and the as the leg faults or loss can be very well managed mere by change of the walking mechanism. 
8. Their redundancy of legs makes it possible to use one or more legs to perform dexterous tasks.

In the automotive industry the demand for the precision requirements is increasing and also there is an advanced need for robotics. In comparison to hexapod roots the traditional robots are fast, can handle heavy loads, but do not have the positioning accuracy. Hexapod robots are highly in use for the automotive industry used for precision alignment & micro-manufacturing automation but are too much precise for the automotive industry. 

In today’s era, high precision applications are highly in demand; the first-tier automotive suppliers can coordinate to measure the machines to calibrate the headlamps.