Whegs! They've got wheels... with legs! You can watch a great intro video
here -- 35 megs might take some people a while to download, but it's worth every minute. Here are some shorter clips you should like:
They
run!
They
climb!
They
jump!
They
fly!
Sometimes they
don't fly!
Now before
someone removes my post, let me stress that this
is relevant to FIRST. As Dean said at the kickoff, "stair climbing is hard." Whegs can "surmount obstacles significantly greater than the radius of the whegs - a difficult feat for wheeled vehicles." Natural connections present themselves...
If you actually put whegs on your bot, please post photos! Video would be even cooler. I love the way these things move!
(Paul McCartney cuts in:
"Something in the way she moves... attracts me like no other lover... Something in the way she mo-o-o-oves me...")
~Aaron