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Swimming Cockroach Robot Developed

Posted by simoniker on from the vermin-no-more dept.

Onnimikki writes "The Ambulatory Robotics Lab at McGill University has made a six-legged swimming cockroach robot as part of Project Aqua. The robot is a waterproof version of the RHex robot, whose inspiration is the biomimetic work by Bob Full of Gecko glue fame. Other cool stuff from the ARL page includes a waddling bipedal RHex, and the world's first galloping robot."

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  1. It runs QNX by leeroybrown · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's nice to see that it runs a proper Real Time OS.

    I have actually seen one case of someone trying to build a mini sub-aqua robot running Windows XP (yes XP not CE) on a powerful micro PC card.

    Seriously, ... it sounds fscked up, but it's true.