Wheeled Robot Gets Taller, Shorter, Jumps
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 25 of June , 2010 at 2:07 am
This little guy may be from 2008, but he’s still pretty cute, and quite talented at going up stairs. This could very well be the fastest stair climbing robot I’ve ever seen. Speed could be a weakness, though, since it looks like the robot needs a pretty significant head start to get up a forgivingly shallow flight of stairs. Going down is no problem, either… The bot just drives straight off, extends its wheels to the ground, and then lowers itself down:
So, pretty cool? Yes. Useful? Well… It’s pretty specialized, and seems to be dependent on getting a running start, but this would be a good bot to have in the lead when we decide to invade M. C. Escher’s House of Stairs, which we totally need to, because wentelteefjes are freakin’ creepy.
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Comment by evaproto
Made Friday, 25 of June , 2010 at 7:25 pm
What are they doing to make it movie vertically? Linear magnetic actuators in the vertical rods? Seems like one could also rig a pully system to make it move up and down or have friction rollers move along the vertical rods.
