How about giving it some wheels?

Meet Animal, a Quadra pedal robot designed for autonomous operation in challenging environments.

Think of flooded rooms, dirty sewage systems on oil rig inspections, places that are dangerous or unsuitable for humans to go.

But no terrain is too rugged for animal.

Recently, researchers in Switzerland have given their four legged robot wheels, making it even faster on all terrain.

Marco Belinelli, which is a PhD student working on the development of the upgraded animal robot at the Robotic Systems Laboratory in Zurich.

So the idea off the wheels, this kind of obvious I mean wheels around.

For millions of years now.

It was obvious for us, but nevertheless, in Leggett robotics in the research community, it waas not really comment with wheels toe the legs, and most of the researchers nowadays they're trying to copy nature.

So you look at dogs or humans.

You build a bip it or quota Peter Robot and you just try to copy nature.

But in our research, we try toe say Okay, can we go a little bit further and add something like we that waas not able to be reproduced by nature itself, Bilonick said, adding wheels two legged robots had been traditionally avoided because it was thought it over complicated their mobility, and a lot of researchers before assume okay.

Adding these wheels make will make it harder and slower for these obstacles, but what we could show actually, the wheels improve for any terrain.

Animal can carry up to an additional £22 and can be sent on a mission on its own, Although a remote control may be used as a safety device, the robot also has different sensory equipment on board, such as optical and thermal cameras, microphones, gas detection sensors on lighting, mhm.