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3-D Printed Wheel Climbs Obstacles - Yazata - Apr 28, 2024
It combines the simplicity of wheels with one of the advantages of legs. I can see obvious applications for small robots and extraterrestrial rovers.
And it climbs passively without need for any sensors or actuators. It's cheap and can be 3-D printed where it's needed.
They say that it rolls smoothly without any more vibration than a normal wheel.
I like cheap, simple engineering solutions like this.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10502024