About eighteen months ago, I told you about a tricycle with square wheels which needed a specially designed road. But now, a company is launching square wheel robots which propel themselves on ...

It may have a geeky name, but the 4WD Mecanum Wheel Robot Kit is actually an excellent way to assure your girlfriend she will have no problem parallel parking in the future. And it’s not because ...

Four wheel drive isn't only for cars anymore. The first robot vacuums are getting the capability, potentially making them more able to overcome obstacles.

Piezo Sonic's four-wheeled robot is a Mighty machine with incredible mobility features. It can easily spin on the spot, climb stairs, and move horizontally ...

W1 is a four-legged robot with powered wheels on the ends of its legs. It can use these wheels to travel fast and easily on smooth surfaces like roads, sidewalks or floors.

With Double’s 360 camera dolly, when you look down in the resulting video, you see only the tiny, rolling Double Robot base (a roughly 1 ft.-wide cylinder with a wheel on each end).

Walking, legged robots may excel at climbing over obstacles, but wheels are still more efficient for travelling over smooth ground. That's why engineers at ETH Zurich have added powered wheels to ...