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Robot Walks on Water
gmletzkojr writes "Yahoo! News has a story about a robot built to walk on water, much like small insects, bugs, and of course, Jesus. The current robot is only a prototype, but more 'useful' robots are already being imagined." This puts into practice what scientists learned just last year.
I think the most important part of this article and development is the fact that the pure research came up with the knowledge last year, and has quickly produced a working model. I think it's a good show of the need for pure research in all fields of science, but it ain't gonna win a nobel prize.
Since these little things rely on some form of surface tension, will a surfact tension modified such as oil or soap affect them.
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It might not be immediately usefull, but anything that pushes robotics into new areas is good in my book.
We've already done walking, flying and swimming bots, so why not skimming?
Seriously, I wonder if a combination of those two robots would be possible? It would be an ideal combination, what with the ammount of small insects which hover just above most still waters...
IANAS, but AFAIK, lava is an entirely different consistency to water and doesnt have a miniscus (spag?) as such to 'stride' on. Equally, if it's hot enough to melt ROCK, metal doesn't stand much of a chance does it?
...in the original version he was simply swimming, no miracle at all.
One of the few cases where the second version is more interesting than the original.
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Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 07, @12:26PM
Sitti estimates his spartan prototype cost about $10 in materials to make.
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Great! So, show me how!
Unless there is more than one MIT team using a "robostrider" to learn about fluid dynamics.
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Unfortunately it's most of the time interpreted as justification for crusades and death penalty
Read the book of Numbers in the Old Testament. It'll describe to you when the death penalty is justified.
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