Ghost Robotics

Producing Lightweight, Durable Robot Parts on Stratasys Origin One

Ghost Robotics™ produces four-legged autonomous unmanned robots with all-terrain stability that can operate in almost any environment. These quadruped robots are size-scalable, ultra-agile, high-endurance, and easy to program. Simple mechanical systems increase the robots’ durability, agility, and endurance. The robots’ modular design supports the efficient field swapping of any sub-assembly.

Challenge

Ghost Robotics needed to produce lightweight, durable parts, with a cosmetic surface finish, for its Spirit™ Series robot.

• The team needed to stay agile, shipping units to customers while maintaining the ability to iterate designs based on customers’ feedback.
• Injection molded parts and CNC machined parts were cost-prohibitive, had long lead times, and could not be easily iterated on.
• The company considered other 3D printing methods as a solution, but the parts weren’t isotropic the mechanical properties weren’t strong enough; and the surface quality was too rough for the parts to be given to customers.