Darn. I was just talking to a work mate about a robot that would be totally sealed from its surrounding environment by working just like this except for the fact that my idea was to power the inside of the toroid with a series of tank tracks. My version would have been steerable by allowing the toroid to bend at the junctions between sets of tracks, i.e. 4 sets of tracks, running from front to back in 4 segments.
I'm not explaining it very well it would outwardly look exactly like this.
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Question Answerer @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM
Darn. I was just talking to a work mate about a robot that would be totally sealed from its surrounding environment by working just like this except for the fact that my idea was to power the inside of the toroid with a series of tank tracks. My version would have been steerable by allowing the toroid to bend at the junctions between sets of tracks, i.e. 4 sets of tracks, running from front to back in 4 segments.
I'm not explaining it very well it would outwardly look exactly like this.
The early bird get the work eh...