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A hexapod — a six-legged walking robot — is the classic platform for studying legged locomotion: stable, statically balanced,...
Farmers lose a large share of harvested produce to spoilage because open sun drying is slow, unhygienic and weather-dependent...
A scissor lift multiplies a small actuator stroke into a stable vertical lift through the scissor-link mechanism used in car...
A Stewart platform is the 6-degree-of-freedom parallel robot used in flight simulators and precision positioning — six actuat...
A self-balancing two-wheeled robot is the classic inverted-pendulum problem made tangible: a robot that reads its tilt with a...
Buried and built-in pipelines fail invisibly: cracks, root intrusion and scale build up where nobody can see, and the failure...
Six legs beat two when the ground gets uneven: a hexapod can keep three feet planted at all times (the tripod gait) and stay...
Wheels beat legs on flat ground and lose badly on stairs — the step edge is a wall to a small wheel. The rocker-bogie answer,...
A self-balancing robot is an inverted pendulum on wheels — the classic controls-lab problem made physical. It stays upright o...
