Hexapod may refer to: Things with six limbs, e.g. a hexapod chair would have six not the traditional four limbs

Biology

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 inse ...

, a subphylum of arthropods including the insects *

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 di ...

, a family of crabs

Technology

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 stabl ...

, a mechanical vehicle that walks on six legs *

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 po ...

, a machine platform supported by six struts, used in robotics *

Hexapod-Telescope The Hexapod-Telescope (HPT) is a telescope located at Cerro Armazones Observatory in northern Chile. The Ritchey-Chrétien reflecting telescope is notable for the design of the telescope mount. Instead of the typical mounting where the telescop ...

, a telescope in Chile mounted on a Stewart platform chassis frame

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