While working at NASA in 2003, Dr. Robert Ambrose, director of the Robotics and Automation Design Lab (RAD Lab), designed a robot with no fixed top or bottom. A perfect sphere, the RoboBall could not ...

An illustration of the RoboBall in space, where researchers hope it will one day serve. View and share a video of this research. While working at NASA in 2003, Dr. Robert Ambrose, director of the ...

Like RoboBall II, it shares the ability to roll around and it can also inflate and deflate itself to alter its traction so it can operate on a variety of surfaces as well as reducing wear and tear.

Researchers are working on a swarm of RoboBalls to send to other planets. The spherical robots would be deployed to map alien landscapes by rolling around challenging terrain. The concept was first ...

Ph.D. students Rishi Jangale and Derek Pravecek with RoboBall.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spherical Roboball Could Tackle Moon's Toughest Terrain – And Help With Disaster Rescue On Earth. A futuristic spherical robot is ...