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Flying robot morphs in mid-air to land and roll on wheels | The ATMO bot was designed to do just that, by performing its transformation in mid-air.
Imagine a robot that can transform between "flying drone" and "wheeled rover" configurations. It could potentially be quite useful, but only if it works in real-world conditions. The ATMO bot was designed to do just that, by performing its transformation in mid-air.
Its name an acronym for Aerially Transforming Morphobot, ATMO was created by a team of engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). That particular robot flew like a regular quadcopter drone when airborne, with its four shrouded propellers spread out horizontally. For this reason, the scientists had to develop a special algorithm that compensates for those changing variables by continuously adjusting the thrust delivered by each propeller.
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