Wheeled Robot

A robot that moves on wheels — fast and efficient on flat ground, but stopped by stairs and rough terrain.

A wheeled robot moves on wheels (or tracks), the most common and technically mature form of mobile robot. On flat, hard ground, rolling wheels lose almost no energy, so they're more efficient, faster, and more stable than legged walking, with simpler mechanics and control; the trade-off is that wheels can't climb stairs and struggle with large gaps or soft, uneven ground. Common base designs include differential drive (two powered wheels that steer by spinning at different rates), omnidirectional or mecanum wheels (which allow sideways movement on the spot), and Ackermann steering (like a car). Examples range from robot vacuums and warehouse AGVs/AMRs, to mobile manipulators with an arm bolted on (like PR2 or Fetch), to wheeled humanoid robots.

ExampleA robot vacuum is the most common example of a differential-drive wheeled robot.

Also called

Wheeled Mobile Robot

Related

Mobile Base (Chassis) · Differential Drive Base · Mecanum Wheel · Wheel-legged Robot · Wheeled Humanoid Robot · Autonomous Mobile Robot

Sources

Robot locomotion - Wikipedia