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Cockroach-Like Robot to Help Explain Animal Movement

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the on-all-sixes dept.

neutron_p writes "A cockroach-like robot named RHex is the starting point for a major project to understand animals' most distinguishing trait: how they move without falling over. Researchers from several universities will focus on RHex, a short, six-legged robot that scampers like a cockroach, as a working model of the principles they're seeking to uncover. By tweaking the robot and using it as a physical model, they hope to tease apart the complex neural and muscular networks in insects."

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  1. How long by Dorsai65 · · Score: 5, Funny

    before one of the humanoid robots tries to squish it?

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    --- Asking inconvenient questions for over 30 years...
  2. This is good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... for real cockroaches. When Armageddon comes, the cockroaches will have robot versions of themselves for slaves.

  3. Huh? by bobobobo · · Score: 4, Funny
    how they move without falling over.

    Because they have six legs? Am I missing something here?

  4. most important feature by kxmas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will it flip on its back when runs out of batteries?