Hexbugs start as tiny plastic toys that scurry around floors on the strength of a single vibrating motor and a few angled bristles. One maker took that basic idea and scaled it up until a person could climb aboard. The result, shown in a recent video, looks more like a moving plywood platform than a […]
Soldiers still burn hours and calories moving water, ammunition, and radios across ground that wrecks ordinary trucks. Pack animals once filled that gap. Conventional electric robots often stall in the same mud, sand, snow, and rubble because their motors sit in the middle of the chassis and feed torque through gearboxes and shafts that lose […]