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My inflatable robot seems to have done quite ok on YouTube, so I thought I'd experiment with something else unusual. Ultimately it's part of the R&D for ongoing walking robots but I thought I'd start small and relatively cheap to try out some ideas before making another larger openDog robot.

This one goes out publicly on Tuesday 23rd.

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Anonymous

brilliant! thats the cutest robot ive ever seen

Anonymous

maybe being able to fold the wheels inward (as it goes up steps) would be better than flippng outward away from the body? this would keep the center of mass close to the center of the body and allow it to easier tilt upwards to attack the stairs. the width of the wheel limbs can maybe be smaller than the width of the legs so that it can fold up in between them

Anonymous

at 6:15: I literally laughed out loud! It looks so cute trodding along! Nice job, though. Definitely could be better with some more intelligence and data like you mentioned, but nonetheless a really good R&D project!

Trevor Flowers

Neat! I'm personally interested in four- and six-legged mechatronics with wheels at the end of the legs that can be fixed to act as feet or move to act as skates.

John N Nelson

It's movement looks so much a baby crawling. Wonderful to watch. TY

XRobots

I guess it could also just about do a 'gallop' with legs in pairs or something.

Anonymous

Cool! How about combining the concept of the Sonic and the miniDog?

John N Nelson

We humans learn to crawl before we can walk. I'd expect no more or less from a robot.