Crawlers

CT-2 rolling out from the VAB (Photo: NASA)

Space

NASA's colossal crawlers mark half a century of service

In 1965, a pair of gigantic crawlers were built to move the Saturn V moon rockets to the launch pad. Half a century later, they are still in service. To celebrate, the 6 million-lb Crawler-Transporter 2 (CT-2) made a less than one mph rollout for a visitor and media day.

NASA's massive crawler - at the time it entered service, it was the largest land vehicle on Earth (Image: NASA)

Space

NASA’s giant crawler transporter gets an overhaul

NASA’s giant crawler transporters that carried the Apollo missions and the Space Shuttles to the launch pad are getting an overhaul.

A Japanese team has developed the Omni-Crawler, a crawler-type vehicle that can move in all directions (Image: DigInfo)

Science

New Omni-Crawler can move in all directions

A Japanese team has developed the Omni-Crawler, a crawler-type vehicle that can move in all directions.

The Cajun Crawler was built by a team of mechanical engineering students at the University of Louisiana

Robotics

Cajun Crawler: the Segway gets a leg-up

Take one DIY Self balancing electric vehicle project, replace the wheels with 6 pars of short legs based on Theo Jansen kinetic sculptures and the result looks