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Airicist
10th May 2014, 14:12
Designer - CWRU Biorobotics Lab (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?2542)

Airicist
10th May 2014, 14:33
https://vimeo.com/61209787

Tumbleweed robot
March 6, 2013


These wind powered robots, modeled after tumbleweeds, are inexpensive alternatives to the rovers found on Mars now.

Airicist
10th May 2014, 14:34
https://vimeo.com/61209986

Tumbleweed deployment
March 6, 2013


The tumbleweed robot moves passively. However, it can actively collapse to stop and take measurements while waiting for wind directions to change before deploying to move in a different direction.