Front view of a Diablo direct-drive wheeled-leg robot navigating a mapped route with waypoint and point cloud overlays.
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Diablo Saukele: Taking Autonomous Navigation from Simulation to a Real Robot on Our Diablo Platform

Our team explains Diablo Saukele, a workflow that takes autonomous navigation from simulation to a real Diablo wheeled-leg robot, and what makes the handoff work.
DIABLO direct-drive self-balancing wheeled-leg robot shown in standing mode with a ghosted creeping-mode outline in the background
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Inside Diablo: A Direct-Drive Self-Balancing Wheeled-Leg Robot Platform

Diablo is a 22.9 kg wheeled-leg robot with six gearless joints. Review its speed, load, runtime and M1502D motor specs, plus its open SDK platform.
Wheeled-Leg Robot with six-joint motion, dual operating modes, 1.5 hours battery life, and quiet, stable mobility.
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Diablo Robot: A Direct-Drive Wheeled-Leg Robot Development Platform Powered by RaspberryPi4ModelB

Explore Diablo, a direct-drive wheeled-leg robot platform powered by RaspberryPi4ModelB for edge AI, delivery, inspection, and robotics research.
Direct Drive Tech demonstrates its direct-drive wheeled-legged robot platform at CES 2024, highlighting obstacle-crossing ability, agility, efficiency, and industrial application potential.
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Wheeled-Legged Robots Move from Labs to Industrial and Home Applications

Wheeled-legged robots now run inspection, patrol and delivery work, and CES 2024 pushed them toward the home. See our Diablo, TITA and D1 specs and pricing

Towards Efficient Trajectory Generation for Ground Robots beyond 2D Environment

With the development of robotics, ground robots are no longer limited to planar motion. Passive height variation due to complex terrain and active height control provided by special structures on r...

FAEL: Fast Autonomous Exploration for Large-scale Environments With a Mobile Robot

Abstract: Autonomous exploration in large-scale and complex environments is a challenging task. As the size of the environment increases, the significant overhead of exploration algorithms could ov...

Edge-Assisted V2X Motion Planning and Power Control Under Channel Uncertainty

Edge-assisted vehicle-to-everything (V2X) motion planning is an emerging paradigm to achieve safe and efficient autonomous driving, since it leverages the global position information shared among m...
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Research paper using our robot