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Robot Walks On Water

Posted by timothy on from the jesus-bugs dept.

HaiLHaiL writes "MSNBC has an article on a water strider-inspired minirobot built by a Carnegie Mellon engineering professor. Nice." The article also summarizes some interesting recent research that explains how the real-life striders glide as they do. Update: 09/11 21:37 GMT by T : Thanks to Hank Zimmerman, I see that I missed this story the first time around -- mea culpa.

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  1. Hrm... by r00k123 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is a dupe about something walking on water the second coming?

    1. Re:Hrm... by shfted! · · Score: 1

      Personally, I don't think walking on water is all that much -- I want to learn how to duplicate on water. Volunteers? Anyone?

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    2. Re:Hrm... by drfrog · · Score: 1

      at least the person who submitted it was a friend of thiers

      thats what important

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  2. Question by BoomerSooner · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does Timothy even read slashdot? Really I want to know.

  3. Re:Kerry has flip flops that walk on water by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    You are among the uneducated, I can see.

    The bill John Kerry supossedly voted for and then against on was because it failed the first time and when it came back around, they added stuff to it so he voted against it.

  4. Forget about this story, I just heard something... by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forget about this story, I just heard something even better!

    Did you guys know that MIT has a robot that can walk on water?

    Man! Someone should submit that to Slashdot...

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  5. I don't understand by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who's Walter Strider?

    holy crap I'm hilarious.

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  6. Hey... by GypC · · Score: 1
    ... I bet the slashdot editors can walk on water, too. After all, they can resurrect the dead (articles).

    Hey timothy, maybe you could come over and work some of your magic on my water tap. I do love wine.

  7. Not a dupe by DaoudaW · · Score: 1

    This is a new robot from a different researcher. It does have a bit of the same background info as the other article, but that stuff was announced on slashdot over a year ago anyway.

    The Carnegie Mellon robot is much cooler than the MIT one. The MIT was a proof of concept windup toy. It went about 6 inches, forward.

    The Carnegie Mellon robot has a carbon-fiber body, uses piezoelectic actuators with three circuits to go forward and reverse. The researchers are planning to keep the control circuits very simple, but could easily drop a programmable chip onto the thing and have a very small autonomous robot to do all sorts of water related functions.

    1. Re:Not a dupe by DaoudaW · · Score: 1

      Whoops, looked at the wrong previous article. Forgive me... :-)