SPIDAR: SPherIcally vectorable and Distributed rotors assisted Air-ground amphibious quadruped Robot

It is my pleasure to announce our new quadruped robot platform, call SPIDAR, which is air-ground amphibious. This hybrid locomotion is achieved by the spherically vectorable rotors distributed in all links. Although several air-ground bipedal robots have been developed by different research teams, to our best knowledge, this is the first time to achieve the hybrid quadruped robot. We develop such a novel multi-limbed platform not only for the multimodal locomotion, but also for the extension of the manipulation ability in both  terrestrial and aerial domains.  Although this video just shows the preliminary hybrid locomotion performance by this robot, we are accelerating the development of this robot  from every perspective, so please stay tuned!