Robotics Blog

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

Research paper using our robot