MR_Go: A Magnetorheological Quadruped Robot for Energy-Efficient, High-Payload, and Impact-Tolerant Planetary Exploration

Planetary exploration missions increasingly rely on agile robotic platforms capable of traversing unstructured and unpredictable terrain. While quadruped robots offer superior mobility compared to wheeled rovers, their deployment in long-duration and shock-load missions remains limited, due to the limitations of high power consumption, low payload-to-weight ratio, and poor resilience to impact and overloads with the conventional actuator. To address these challenges, we present the MR_Go, a magn