Mochibot: The 32-legged spherical robot

[Still Waters]

Making a one-legged robot that moves is very hard. Two-legged robots are a little bit more straightforward in some ways, and four-legged robots are statically stable much of the time. You can see where this is going—there’s a general trend toward more legs being more stable and potentially easier to control, especially as terrain complexity increases. So what happens if you take that logic to an extreme? As it turns out, you end up with a spherical robot made of 32 individually actuated telescoping legs, named Mochibot.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/32-legged-spherical-robot-moves-like-an-amoeba