http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/project/lri/

Courtesy of Daily Planet, Discovery Channel Canada. Some original video shot and provided by the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. Special thanks to producer Ben Schaub.

About Scarab:

How do you design a robot that can be close to the ground for drilling, while maintaining a sufficient belly clearance for mobility and obstacle avoidance? Scarab solves this problem by altering it’s body pose. Scarab’s nominal driving pose allows for extreme mobility and obstacle handling, while Scarab’s drilling pose lets the robots belly lay on the ground.