Not the first of its kind, guys. We had a robot just like this at a company I used to work at. It's called RHEX and the company is Boston Dynamics in Waltham, MA. This was one of their first robots.
@Brazen521 Both the current Boston Dynamics robot and this one are direct descendants of the original Rugged-RHex robot that was developed at McGill. Rugged-RHex was developed to primarily move on land, while being immersible, AQUA was designed to operate a deeper depths while maintaining land mobility.
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Not the first of its kind, guys. We had a robot just like this at a company I used to work at. It's called RHEX and the company is Boston Dynamics in Waltham, MA. This was one of their first robots.
@Brazen521
Both the current Boston Dynamics robot and this one are direct descendants of the original Rugged-RHex robot that was developed at McGill. Rugged-RHex was developed to primarily move on land, while being immersible, AQUA was designed to operate a deeper depths while maintaining land mobility.