A Japanese team has developed the Omni-Crawler, a crawler-type vehicle that can move in all directions. When the need to move super-heavy objects arises, short, squat crawlers are usually deployed ...

Several of these Omni-Balls are attached to the crawler, and wrapped in a rubber tank tread like gripper material. The resultant motion is predictably omnidirectional, ...

It’s always interesting to see new and innovative means of robot locomotion. At the recent “Innovation Japan 2011” conference researchers from Osaka University unveiled the Omni-Crawler ...