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Robots With Square Wheels?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the being-a-square-not-such-a-bad-thing dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "About eighteen months ago, I told you about a tricycle with square wheels which needed a specially designed road. But now, Distributed Robotics, a company from Troy, N.Y., is developing robots with square wheels which don't need specific roads. These new 'cars' propel themselves on flat surfaces by taking advantage of gravity. This might sound crazy, but the inventors think it could lead to new robots and toys, and more generally to new micro-machines or MEMS applications."

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  1. Troy, NY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    About as useless as the $60,000 pieces of paper that come from that town (www.rpi.edu).

  2. Why we need this invention by squoozer · · Score: 0, Troll

    Any day now someone is going to figure out that the current rules let you patent the circle. Wheels prices (and everything else based on circles) will cost a fortune and be out of most peoples reach. We will praise this guy with his square wheels for saving us from the evil corporation (unless of course he patents the square - triangular wheels anyone?).

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