With its ingenious mechanical structure, Shrimp III guarantees an incredible mobility. It moves comfortably in all kind of challenging terrains, overcomes vertical obstacles up to twice its wheel size and it can even climb stairs!

The Shrimp III robot is the ideal platform to develop new technologies for outdoor navigation and sensing.

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Overview

A passive structure is the key innovating factor of this robot: it does not need to actively sense obstacles for climbing them. Instead, it simply moves forward and lets its mechanical structure adapt to the terrain profile. With the result that the Shrimp III platform has no sensors or actuators, except motors inside the wheels controlled with speed regulators.

Powered by 6 motors integrated inside the wheels and steered by two servos, this robot is able to turn on the spot. It is built in anodized Aluminum and it is equipped with modular electronics allowing the developer to communicate with it through a standard RS232 cable.

Shrimp III is the ideal platform to develop navigation solutions for challenging environments since only little calculation power is needed for the rover stability. Most of it being naturally performed by the passive structure.

You can test Shrimp's performance in Webots, the winning fast prototyping and simulation software from Cyberbotics!