Hydraulic Wedgebot Keeps Rubble Unruffled

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 24 of December , 2009 at 4:04 am

This innovative robot from the Tokyo Institute of Technology uses two sets of… Honestly, I don’t know what to call them… Lifting stair things (?) to slowly and steadily burrow under obstacles. Steadily is the key to this process: as it moves, the robot maintains support under the obstacle and doesn’t cause any jerking, which is important if you’re dealing with heavy and unstable things like you might find in the middle of (say) a collapsed building. LEDs and a small camera on the front of the bot let controllers see what it sees; the primary use for the robot will be searching for survivors in the aftermath of earthquakes and explosions.

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