--- title: Stewart Platform Walker Gains Feeling In Legs From Resistors description: Stewy is a hexapod walking robot built around a Stewart platform head, where the same servos drive both the platform and the legs. To give the robot tactile... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stewart-platform-walker-gains-feeling-in-legs-from-resistors-prwnynuw3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stewart Platform Walker Gains Feeling In Legs From Resistors | daily.dev og:description: Stewy is a hexapod walking robot built around a Stewart platform head, where the same servos drive both the platform and the legs. To give the robot tactile... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stewart-platform-walker-gains-feeling-in-legs-from-resistors-prwnynuw3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/prWNyNUW3.png og:image:alt: Stewart Platform Walker Gains Feeling In Legs From Resistors og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stewart Platform Walker Gains Feeling In Legs From Resistors **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Stewy is a hexapod walking robot built around a Stewart platform head, where the same servos drive both the platform and the legs. To give the robot tactile feedback for navigating uneven terrain, the builder added a simple current-sensing trick: a resistor in series with each servo motor. By measuring the voltage drop across the resistor, the microcontroller can infer motor torque via Ohm's law, providing surprisingly useful force data with minimal added complexity. The approach works well once servo speed is reduced slightly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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