{"id":185478,"date":"2024-03-19T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T01:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/omnidirectional-tripedal-robot-scoots-shuffles-and-climbs"},"modified":"2024-03-19T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T01:30:39","slug":"omnidirectional-tripedal-robot-scoots-shuffles-and-climbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/omnidirectional-tripedal-robot-scoots-shuffles-and-climbs","title":{"rendered":"Omnidirectional tripedal robot scoots, shuffles and climbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8bamZEG-bNs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A small research group from the University of Michigan has developed a three-legged skating\/shuffling robot called SKOOTR that rolls as it walks, can move along in any direction and can even rise up to overcome obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the SKOOTR \u2013 or SKating, Omni-Oriented, Tripedal Robot \u2013 project came from assistant professor Talia Y. Moore at the University of Michigan\u2019s Evolution and Motion of Biology and Robotics (EMBiR) Lab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came up with this idea as I was rolling around on my office chair between groups of students,\u201d said Moore. \u201cI realized that the passively rolling office chair could easily spin in any direction, and I could use my legs to perform a variety of maneuvers while staying remarkably stable. I realized that this omnidirectional maneuverability is similar to how brittle stars change directions while swimming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small research group from the University of Michigan has developed a three-legged skating\/shuffling robot called SKOOTR that rolls as it walks, can move along in any direction and can even rise up to overcome obstacles. The idea for the SKOOTR \u2013 or SKating, Omni-Oriented, Tripedal Robot \u2013 project came from assistant professor Talia Y. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}