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Ground robots

A robot that drives on wheels or tracks — from a vacuum to a warehouse shelf carrier — with no legs and no arm built in.

  • mobile robot
  • mobile base
  • rover
  • AMR
  • AGV
  • UGV

What it is

A ground robot moves over a surface on wheels or continuous tracks. It is the simplest way to make a robot mobile: wheels are cheap, efficient and stable. What it gives up is terrain; a step or a kerb stops most of them, which is why legged robots exist.

People call them mobile robots, rovers, AMRs, AGVs or UGVs. In this taxonomy the branch holds anything on wheels or tracks with no legs and no arm sold with it; an arm added later is an attribute.

The types

  • Wheeled robots — nearly everything: vacuums, mowers, delivery carts, warehouse AMRs, research bases. Cheapest and most efficient on flat floors.
  • Tracked robots — the same idea on tracks for grass, gravel, stairs and rubble; slower, heavier, harder on floors.

What to compare

Attribute Why it matters In this catalogue
navigation Lidar SLAM, camera, RTK satellite or a buried wire decides where it can work slam (10), line-following (1), none (1)
payload Sensors on a research base; carts and shelves on a warehouse robot 4.8 kg (AgileX Robotics LIMO) – 1000 kg (Geek+ P800R)
battery_runtime A vacuum needs one cleaning run; an AMR needs a shift or swappable packs 60 min (AgileX Robotics LIMO) – 720 min (Starship delivery robot)
drive_config Differential (including skid-steer), omnidirectional (mecanum), Ackermann or tracked decides how it turns in a tight space differential (3), tracked (1)
ip_rating Indoor only vs mowers and outdoor rovers 4 entries
sdk ROS 2 support is what makes a base usable for research proprietary (10), ros2 (4), python (3), cpp (2), ros1 (2)
has_arm Whether the maker offers an arm option for the base no entries yet
mass Lift it up a step yourself, or not 1.09 kg (KEYi Tech Loona) – 142 kg (Geek+ P800R)

Price picture (observed 2026-10-28)

  • Professional / industrial: USD 14,500 (Pudu Robotics BellaBot) to EUR 22,500 (Clearpath Robotics Husky A300).
  • Research: USD 1,850 (Clearpath Robotics TurtleBot 4) to USD 14,190 (AgileX Robotics SCOUT 2.0).
  • Education, hobby & consumer: USD 150 (Makeblock mBot2) to GBP 3,509 (Husqvarna Automower 430X NERA).
  • On quotation: Geek+ P800R, HaiPick A42, Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) MiR250, Starship delivery robot.
  • Priced only in other currencies: Sphero RVR+ (AUD).

Prices are the latest observation per product, in the seller's currency; see each record's offers for history and VAT notes.

In the catalogue

Professional / industrial: Clearpath Robotics Husky A300 · Geek+ P800R · HaiPick A42 · KEENON Robotics DINERBOT T10 · Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) MiR250 · PUDU CC1 · Pudu Robotics BellaBot · Starship delivery robot (other)
Research: AgileX Robotics LIMO · AgileX Robotics SCOUT 2.0 · Clearpath Robotics TurtleBot 4
Education, hobby & consumer: Dreame X50 Ultra · ECOVACS DEEBOT X8 PRO OMNI · Husqvarna Automower 430X NERA (discontinued) · iRobot Roomba Plus 505 Combo robot + AutoWash dock · KEYi Tech Loona · Living.ai EMO · Makeblock mBot2 · MAMMOTION LUBA 2 AWD (discontinued) · Narwal Freo Z Ultra · Roborock Saros 10R · Segway Navimow X3 Series · Sphero RVR+

Edge cases

  • Vacuum with a built-in arm (Roborock Saros Z70): a mobile manipulator.
  • Base and arm sold separately: a ground robot with has_arm; the arm is its own entry, linked by compatible_with.
  • Legs ending in wheels: a legged robot.
  • Wheeled base with a humanoid torso: a humanoid.

Related

Robot · Arm · Humanoid · Legged robot · Mobile manipulator · Aerial robot · Aquatic robot · Wearable robot · Stationary robot · Kit · Wheeled robot (22) · Tracked robot (1)

Rule of membership

Wheels or tracks; no legs; no arm sold as part of the product (an add-on arm is attribute has_arm).

Category rb-4 in the whatrobot taxonomy.