  Ants are six-legged insects that can carry loads ten times heavier than their
body weight. Since having six-legs, they are intrinsically stable. They are
powerful and can carry heavy loads. For these reasons, in this paper a new
parallel kinematic structure is proposed for a six-legged ant robot. The
mechanical structure is designed and optimized in Solidworks. The mechanism has
six legs and only two DC motors actuate the six legs so from mechanical point
of view the design is an optimal one. The robot is lightweight and
semiautonomous due to using wireless modules. This feature makes this robot to
be suitable to be used in social robotics and rescue robotics applications. The
transmitter program is implemented in supervisor computer using LabVIEW and a
microcontroller is used as the main controller. The electronic board is
designed and tested in Proteus Professional and the PCB board is implemented in
Altium Designer. Microcontroller programming is done in Code Vision.
