Controlling a Vibrobot with Only One Motor

The vibrobot – a vibrating motor and battery attached to the head of a brush – isn’t truly a robot, since its movement can’t be controlled, but it’s whetted the interest of many future roboticists. With a clever control method , though, it is in fact possible to drive them in any desired direction while using only one motor. [Namaskar Mitro] based the design of this robot on this research paper ; if the vibrating motor is mounted at an angle above the base of the robot, it causes the bot to rota