The Boca Bearing Company is pleased to announce the final winners of the 2012 Innovation Contest. To celebrate 25 years in business Boca Bearings challenged their community of engineers, robot builders, mechanics and makers to show us their innovative mechanical project videos. The only rule was their project had to utilize ball bearings, roller bearings, linear bearings or any form of full ceramic or ceramic hybrid bearings in some capacity. The grand prize winner of $10,000 in cash is Morphex III from Norway by Kare Halvorsen. Kare has built quite an impressive, physically adaptable, hexapod robot platform. Morphex III is able to walk with legs but it can also change into a sphere and roll like a ball. This robot operates with 36 ball bearings and the 12 bearings in the body play a key role in keeping the robot in one piece. Kare said about his motivation in building Morphex III
Product Model | Inside Diameter | Outside Diameter | Thickness |
5313NR NACHI | 65 | 140 | 58.7 |
5213ANR NACHI | 65 | 120 | 38.1 |