Video: A new robot with wheels has also been designed to jump over obstacles.
Seoul National University of Technology
WHEELED robots designed for security or military work have always had one fatal flaw: despite state-of-the-art technology, they can usually be foiled by something as mundane as a staircase. That could soon change.
Sporting two recycled mineral-water bottles, ScoutRobot may look like a cross between R2D2 and a piece of landfill, but it can sense a step ahead of it, assess its height, and jump onto it.
The technology was developed by Dong…
