Home BEAM family tree Sitter Squirmer Slider Crawler Turbot Inchworm Design Gallery Tracked 'bot Jumper Roller Walker Swimmer Flier Climber   The BEAM Bestiary is a BEAM Reference Library site.		Inchworms BEAMbots patterned on inchworms and caterpillars Inchworms propel themselves by setting up a "wave" motion through their body. In this way, the wave selectively moves part of the body forward, while keeping the rest of the body on the ground. Here's an example of how to make a 4-motor inchworm (maximum angle between any two adjacent segments is 45 degrees) move: For more information... You definitely want to check out "The Motion Dynamics of Snakes and Worms."
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