Now that we have a wide assortment of recreational wheeled footwear, what’s next? How about teaching robots to skate, too? An IEEE Spectrum interview with [Marko Bjelonic] of ETH Zürich ...

[Jouni] built a pretty nice little two-wheeled robot a while back — but he never got it working quite right. Taking inspiration and a bit of opensource code from another hacker featured here ...

The robots feature three mobility modes — quadrupedal, wheeled, and tracked. They can walk, run, climb stairs and slopes, lie down, avoid obstacles, and navigate challenging terrain, reports ...