Robots inspired by animals
6 October 2009
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Read more: www.newscientist.com Robotics researchers are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration. Watch a robotic salamander, a water strider robot, mechanical cockroaches and some cool self-configuring robots. Footage courtesy of: University of Essex, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Carnegie Mellon University, ULB-EPFL, Tokyo Institute of Technology, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (AIST).









if you got a degree in robitcs and passed all your exams etc and finished uni where would you go to get onto projects like this?
the cockoroaches looked the most real
Me too its just needs to be faster
that last one was amazing
i believe the cockraches ARE real. it’s that white thing they where talking about
i want the roaches!! so real !!!
FAIL the cockoarches were real. The white robot is what they where talking about
1:56 everybody do the wormm!
lol 1:51 its doing the worm
That multisectional robot at the end was like the replicators from Stargate ^.^
The last one was my favorite :D
SOOOOOOO COOL!
The last robot was cool, can turn into several shapes? What about “Voltes 5?” I’d definitly bought one if they’d make it XD
agreed!
the last one was my fav 2!
LOL @ the last one, it’s WAVING lol XD
I LOVE THE LAST ONE!!! :D
All those robots are badass.
the last one’s doin the worm lol
It is similar to replicators just hope so this not doing same thing :).
Autobots, dance-off!
*does the worm*
the last robo is off the hook!
Brilliant.
the last one was not in real time because its very slow in realtime
the narrator sounds very pleasent, and amazing
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