22/01/2024
VertiGo is a wall-climbing robot that is capable of transitioning from the ground to the wall. The robot has two tiltable propellers that provide thrust onto the wall, and four wheels. One pair of wheels is steerable, and each propeller has two degrees of freedom for adjusting the direction of thrust. The use of propellers to provide thrust onto the wall ensures that the robot is able to traverse over indentations such as masonry.
The Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4 for short) is a multimodal robot designed by Morteza Gharib, a professor of aeronautics and bioinspired engineering at Caltech, in partnership with Alireza Ramezani, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University. The robot can roll on four wheels, turn its wheels into rotors and fly, stand on two wheels like a meerkat to peer over obstacles, "walk" by using its wheels like feet, use two rotors to help it roll up steep slopes on two wheels, tumble, and more. The robot's flexibility of motion, coupled with artificial intelligence, allows it to choose what form of locomotion will be most effective based on the terrain ahead of it.
VertiGo is a wall-climbing robot that is capable of transitioning from the ground to the wall. The robot has two tiltable propellers that provide thrust onto...
