RHex Robot - From the makers of BigDog

The Rugged Robot that Devours Rough Terrain
RHex is a man-portable robot with extraordinary rough terrain mobility. RHex climbs over rock fields, mud, sand, vegetation, railroad tracks, telephone poles and up steep slopes and stairways. RHex has a sealed body, making it fully operational in wet weather, in muddy and swampy conditions, and it can swim on the surface or dive underwater. RHex's remarkable terrain capabilities have been validated in independent testing at US Government Labs.

RHex is controlled remotely from an operator control unit at distances up to 600 meters. A video uplink provides front and rear views from RHex's onboard cameras. RHex also uplinks navigational data from onboard compass and GPS and from payload sensors. A downlink allows the operator to control mobility and to operate mission payloads.

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[jetplane2006]

Yup!

But can it lick it's balls?

[MattFenner23]

it looks kinda... happy...

[GameNinja13]

One day this these things are just going to roam the wild.

[DarthPRB]

Well this is great, but a full-size one wouldn't be a lot of fun to ride in...

[twizy123]

He mows the grass

[christian2066]

waoo nice

[dragonman86]

they shoulda called it Croc-Bot, or Gator-Bot, or Robo-Cop... oh wait...

[TheGidding]

It goes like floppy floppy

and then it goes like floppy floppy.

[galilsnap]

Its cool, but can it get me a sandwich?

[MTERM775]

I would attach multiple cameras and a Bulletproof shell over it, then send it into Area 51.

[Windows2OOO]

Так и хочется его тапкой прихлопнуть...уж больно на таракана похож

[Chad48309]

@ankhamon2000 That, and the directional correction, sensory control of torque and speed, etc. There's a lot of computation that goes into this kind of movement.