For many of us, the first robot we saw rolling on powered wheels at the end of actively articulated legs was when footage of the Boston Dynamics ‘Handle’ project surfaced a few years ago.
For example, when scrambling across an incline in the video, the robot hops along the ground on two legs, while on a dirt track, it speeds along on all four wheels. At top speed, the Lynx can ...
A team of researchers at Texas A&M led by [Kiju Lee] is trying to have their cake and eat it too by building a robot with wheels that transform into legs, known as a-WaLTR (Adaptable Wheel-and-Leg ...
was meant to solve issues facing robots with wheels and legs, Wenzhou Daily reported on Wednesday. Wang You, an associate professor at the college, told the newspaper the device weighed 125kg ...
Most drones on the market are rotary-wing quadcopters, which can conveniently land and take off almost anywhere. The problem is they are less energy-efficient than fixed-wing aircraft, which can fly ...