The robot uses treads for locomotion—each side has two wheels wrapped in a belt for grip. The robot has a small DC gearmotor driving each belt so it can be driven forwards, backwards, and ...

When science fiction authors imagined robots in the 20th century, many of them were huge imposing steel automatons. [Shane]’s designs for the Pretty Small Robot are quite contrary to that, be… ...

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Winning teams will push the entire lunar mobility ecosystem forward, and may have their designs tested by NASA.

The robot’s four wheels are just under 4 inches in diameter, and the whole machine is just 7 inches wide and almost 8 inches long. That’s a compact body, and the compactness is the point.

Alexa on wheels. At least four years in the making, the small robot, called Astro, has a large screen and cameras attached to a wheeled base that can navigate a home.