Whegs, CWRU Biorobotics Lab, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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Designer - CWRU Biorobotics Lab

Home page - biorobots.case.edu/projects/whegs

 

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Whegs II
March 6, 2013

The Whegs II robot uses abstracted biological principles to produce robust ground locomotion.

 

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Whegs II navigates through rubble
March 6, 2013

The Whegs II robot is capable of traversing a wide variety of terrains and can over come relatively large obstacles.

 

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Jumping Mini-Whegs
March 6, 2013

A spring loaded mechanism propels Mini-Whegs over a six inch step.

 

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Mini-Whegs climbs over an obstacle
March 6, 2013

Mini-Whegs shows off its wheel legs by easily surmounting an obstacle.

 

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[video=vimeo;61208674]http://vimeo.com/61208674[/video]

Increasing small robot mobility
March 6, 2013

In order to increase the mobility of small robots Whegs have been developed at Case Western Reserve University. Whegs provide the mobility of legs while having the simplicity of wheels.