The driving to walking transition is pretty darn cool. Using the propellers to lift itself up is pretty smart. But overall, this seems like an absolute reliability nightmare.
The good news is that when the battery dies, it has no moving parts!, keeping it simple.
EDIT:
What would be really neat ; putting little inflatable pontoons on those skids.
That thing is awesome, however, with the hard plastic wheels, and the way it scapes them back into forward wheels, I feel like this is a dead-in-the-water-flaw.
Imagine trying to scrape the wheels back into place on sand, or any other terrain obsticals that will prevent the pulling the wheels in.
Instead, it should move the pivot joint and allow for the wheels to be lifted up, gull-wing-style, then straightened and then placed down like feet, lift the body, then drive....
That thing will die in water without pontoons (the wheels/tyres maybe) -- and also not relying on scraping hard Big-Wheel stile plastice tyres along whatever surface.
It’s probably a one use disposable solution when something critical needs to be delivered somewhere, be it peaceful (medicines) of bellicose (explosives) or anything in between.
