Hexapod may refer to:
Things with six limbs, e.g. a hexapod chair would have six not the traditional four limbs
Biology
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Hexapoda
The subphylum Hexapoda (from Greek for 'six legs') comprises most species of arthropods and includes the insects as well as three much smaller groups of wingless arthropods: Collembola, Protura, and Diplura (all of these were once considered in ...
, a subphylum of arthropods including the insects
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Hexapodidae, a family of crabs
Technology
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Hexapod (robotics)
''A six-legged walking robot should not be confused with a Stewart platform, a kind of parallel manipulator used in robotics applications''.
A hexapod robot is a mechanical vehicle that walks on six legs. Since a robot can be statically stable ...
, a mechanical vehicle that walks on six legs
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Stewart platform
A Stewart platform is a type of parallel manipulator that has six prismatic actuators, commonly hydraulic jacks or electric linear actuators, attached in pairs to three positions on the platform's baseplate, crossing over to three mounting poi ...
, a machine platform supported by six struts, used in robotics
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Hexapod-Telescope, a telescope in Chile mounted on a Stewart platform chassis frame
See also
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Tetrapod
Tetrapods (; ) are four-limb (anatomy), limbed vertebrate animals constituting the superclass Tetrapoda (). It includes extant taxon, extant and extinct amphibians, sauropsids (reptiles, including dinosaurs and therefore birds) and synapsids (p ...
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Octopod
An octopus (plural, : octopuses or octopodes, Octopus#Etymology and pluralisation, see below for variants) is a soft-bodied, eight-cephalopod limb, limbed Mollusca, mollusc of the order (biology), order Octopoda (, ). The order consists of ...
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