https://phys.org/news/2018-07-centauro-disaster-response-robot-workers.html > The Centauro project aims at the realization of a robotic platform for assisting rescue workers executing emergency response tasks in hostile environments. The Centauro robot is therefore designed to navigate in man-made environments, thanks to its hybrid mobility skills that combine legged articulated locomotion and wheeled mobility. Its body has dimensions compatible to those needed to operate within human infrastructures; it can pass through doors and narrow corridors, and navigate standard stairs. > The mobility, manipulation and whole body control skills of the robot have been recently validated in the manipulation of heavy objects and the breaking of wood pieces.