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') or hexapods comprises the largest clade of arthropods and includes most of the extant arthropod species. It includes the crown group class Insecta (true insects), as well as the much smaller c ...
, a subphylum of arthropods including the insects
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Hexapodidae
Hexapodidae is a family of crabs, the only family in the superfamily Hexapodoidea. It has traditionally been treated as a subfamily of the family Goneplacidae, and was originally described as a subfamily of Pinnotheridae. Its members can be d ...
, 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 joint, prismatic actuators, commonly hydraulic jacks or electric linear actuators, attached in pairs to three positions on the platform's baseplate, crossing over to thr ...
, a machine platform supported by six struts, used in robotics
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Hexapod-Telescope
The Hexapod-Telescope (HPT) was a Ritchey-Chrétien optical telescope, that operated in 2006-2017 in the Cerro Armazones Observatory (OCA) in northern Chile, and is currently decommissioned.
The notable feature of the HPT – and the reason for ...
, a telescope in Chile mounted on a Stewart platform chassis frame
See also
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Tetrapod
A tetrapod (; from Ancient Greek :wiktionary:τετρα-#Ancient Greek, τετρα- ''(tetra-)'' 'four' and :wiktionary:πούς#Ancient Greek, πούς ''(poús)'' 'foot') is any four-Limb (anatomy), limbed vertebrate animal of the clade Tetr ...
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Octopod
An octopus (: octopuses or octopodes) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (, ). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. Like other ...
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