Ercoms Robotics Lab

It has been a hobby for a number of years to develop a bicycle without wheels that could walk. It would move on legs and resemble a large insect. A linkage was developed that satisfied the design criteria and several small-scale prototypes were built that demonstrated the concept. Applications for the linkage go beyond human-powered […]

Theo Jansen devices are built by the Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor, Theo Jansen, which resemble skeletons of animals and are able to walk on the wind. The basic Theo Jansen device is a 13-bar linkage system that “walks” when a crank is turned (Fig. 1). The “Strand beest”, one of Theo Jansen’s most famous […]

Automobiles have become a basic necessity in present world of industrialization and fast growing population. An automobile is a self-propelled vehicle, which is used for road transportation of passengers and goods. The self-propelled vehicle is that contains its own source of power for the propulsion, e.g., car, jeep, bus, truck etc. World’s first automobile was […]