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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. Re:duh... by lightknight · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bah, I'll cave in and take a gmail invite.

    Send to ryanr(AT)nni.com

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    I am John Hurt.
  2. Stand first, then vote.... by Himring · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how they move without falling over.

    A study that hopes to lead to helping people push a large "yes" or a large "no" on a voting touch screen....

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    "All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
  3. PENISbird by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    muahaha.

    muahahaHA.

    muahaHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAhaha.

    hihi.

    huhu.

    hoho.

    he.

  4. 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...

  5. Re:COCKroach by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the fuck is this 'hihihi' talk I keep saying nowadays?

    If you are meant to be laughing then it's 'hahaha'.

    You can also use 'hehehe' to convey a more subdued chuckle.

    If you're feeling festive you could use, at a stretch, 'hohoho'.

    But 'hihihi'? What, are you greeting someone in a recursive fashion? Say it out loud and it sounds retarded.

    The English language is already going down the toilet thanks to things like ebonics in pop culture, so could us more intelligent beings at least be a little self regulating?

    Thanks.