Simple Robot Climbs Stairs With Ease

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 30 of June , 2009 at 4:54 am

Robots have lots of trouble with stairs, which is unfortunate, because we humans like our stairs. We’ve seen a variety of stair climbing robots over the years that aren’t modeled on humans, ranging from the slightly complicated to the very complicated to the extremely complicated.

Arek over at Let’s Make Robots put together this elegant stair climbing robot using servos and plywood in four hours for about $70. Is it fancy? No. Does it work? Yes. It might be worth experimenting what the upper limits are as far as payload goes, but it’s awesome to see such a simple concept be so successful at overcoming a complex problem. Kudos to Arek, and you can see the latest version (which is slightly more complicated but also more effective) here.

[ The Climber ] VIA [ Eggshell Robotics ]

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Comment by Anastasios-Antonios Toulkeridis

Made Tuesday, 30 of June , 2009 at 10:51 am

Insanely ingenious :-)
it took Honda 20 years of intensive research and billions of dollars only to see ASIMO fall of the stairs. This simple design verifies what biologists have known for decades. That sometimes specialization is more effective than general-purpose forms

Comment by dfyxjc

Made Friday, 17 of July , 2009 at 12:06 pm

It might be worth experimenting what the upper limits are as far as payload goes,

Comment by Bob

Made Tuesday, 1 of December , 2009 at 12:44 pm

and it’s purpose is….what

Comment by bajji93

Made Wednesday, 13 of January , 2010 at 11:47 pm

this is a mind blowing discovery for the invention of robot..