A team of researchers at Texas A&M led by [Kiju Lee] is trying to have their cake and eat it too by building a robot with wheels that transform into legs, known as a-WaLTR (Adaptable Wheel-and-Leg ...

This robot, introduced in a paper in Artificial Life and Robotics, has elastic, telescopic legs that exhibit highly complex dynamics and a walking-like motion. "We developed a rimless wheel robot ...