Climber
A mobile robot that moves across soft surfaces with magnetic grip.
- Year
- 2022
- Role
- Design Engineer, ROSO Coop
- Tags
- Mobile RobotMicrocontroller3D PrintRapid Prototyping
A small mobile robot designed to grip fabric instead of driving on the floor.
Climber moves across soft surfaces like fabric. Its body pairs wheels with a magnetic clip that pinches the fabric between two printed halves, so it can hold on to a surface that flexes under it.
A small mobile robot designed to grip fabric instead of driving on the floor.
Climber moves across soft surfaces like fabric. Its body pairs wheels with a magnetic clip that pinches the fabric between two printed halves, so it can hold on to a surface that flexes under it.
This was a real hardware system, not a printed shell. The movement logic came out of a microcontroller, breadboard tests, wiring, and motor-control experiments before any of it got packed into the chassis.
The two-part body shows the mechanism plainly: the wheels move it, while embedded magnets in matching printed halves clamp the fabric.
The point is soft-surface mobility: search and rescue, industrial inspection, household jobs like laundry, anywhere a robot has to travel over material instead of floor.
