Tumbleweed Robot from CWRU Biorobotics Lab, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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Tumbleweed robot
March 6, 2013

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

 

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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.