Roadrunner

Model: roadrunner

Roadrunner is a Robotics & AI Institute research prototype for agile multimodal locomotion. The roughly 15 kg bipedal-wheeled robot can switch between side-by-side wheel driving, in-line wheel driving, and stepping configurations, with symmetric legs that can point the knees forward or backward to manage obstacles and specific movements. RAI says a single control policy handles both wheel modes, and that behaviors such as standing up from different ground configurations and balancing on one wheel were deployed zero-shot on hardware.