Hexapod robot can transform, roll out in a ball

by Larra Morris

This is Norwegian engineer Kåre “Zenta” Halvorsen’s MorpHex, a hexapod robot that can transform and roll out in a ball.
via Geekologie

Hexapod robot vehicle

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