The invention provides a reconfigurable device for a walking
robot with four / two parallel legs, belonging to the technical field of robots. The
leg mechanism of the
robot is structurally designed in a modularization way, and the legs are of a same structure. When four-leg walking is carried out, the
leg mechanism is a 3-UPU, and when two-leg walking is carried out, the
leg mechanism is a 3-SPU (Synergistic
Processing Unit), wherein the conversion between the two leg mechanisms is realized through a rotation-pair retaining device, and the conversion between four legs and two legs is realized through a merging device. The rotation-pair retaining device comprises an
electromagnet, an electromagnetic chuck base, friction plates, a friction plate carrier, a support column, a spring and a rotation-pair retaining plate, a rotation pair in a pair S is controlled to be locked and unlocked through the lamination and the separation of the friction plates, and the lamination and the separation of the friction plates are controlled by the sucker type
electromagnet. The merging device comprises an electromagnetic chuck, a guiding device, a push-pull type
electromagnet and a locking clamp, and the merging device is locked by controlling the positions of two legs to be merged, merging the soles through the electromagnetic chuck and the guiding device, and driving the locking clamp to act by the push-pull type electromagnet.