RIO is a holonomic indoor research platform I’m currently developing. It has a full suspension to tackle those uneven carpets and to minimize wheel slippage.

In the weeks to come, I would like to provide more documentation about the robot. In the meanwhile, here’s a picture-

UPDATE 1: Rio is functional now. Here is a video of it’s initial motion test.

UPDATE: Here are some videos made by my students, Gina and Germaine from Temasek Design School, pre-visualizing what Rio might look like. We are very excited to develop the expressive head and obviously, we are big fans of Pixar.

UPDATE Rio is evolving. I’m currently finalizing the Beta/Final version of the design. For images on the evolution see the post The Evolution of Rio