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Robots inspired by animals

6 October 2009 25 Comments

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).

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  • noggyd120 said:

    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?

  • ipwnz123 said:

    the cockoroaches looked the most real

  • blayde10 said:

    Me too its just needs to be faster

  • LilSaintLilAngel said:

    that last one was amazing

  • xcrayziestephx said:

    i believe the cockraches ARE real. it’s that white thing they where talking about

  • binary0011 said:

    i want the roaches!! so real !!!

  • K00LKATKYLE said:

    FAIL the cockoarches were real. The white robot is what they where talking about

  • Timb0tr0n said:

    1:56 everybody do the wormm!

  • bomerman104 said:

    lol 1:51 its doing the worm

  • jadenedaj said:

    That multisectional robot at the end was like the replicators from Stargate ^.^

  • GHhog said:

    The last one was my favorite :D

  • nicholaslegoparty said:

    SOOOOOOO COOL!

  • Leafshinoby said:

    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

  • deGothiaSweden said:

    agreed!

  • chrono263 said:

    the last one was my fav 2!

  • IllegalMavamaarten said:

    LOL @ the last one, it’s WAVING lol XD

  • TheycallmeShamy said:

    I LOVE THE LAST ONE!!! :D

  • Shalek said:

    All those robots are badass.

  • GONARUTOSONIC said:

    the last one’s doin the worm lol

  • tramvaj12 said:

    It is similar to replicators just hope so this not doing same thing :).

  • CalvinDWalker said:

    Autobots, dance-off!

    *does the worm*

  • megatron89j said:

    the last robo is off the hook!

  • sidra5397 said:

    Brilliant.

  • ludsoe said:

    the last one was not in real time because its very slow in realtime

  • vampirechibiofreno said:

    the narrator sounds very pleasent, and amazing

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