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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. Not my style, thanks! by Trillan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just looking at the URL, "amercock.html"... I don't think that's my style of pr0n...

    Apparently amercocks are only 1-1.5" long. I saw much bigger overseas on my last vacation...