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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. Super movie by Hao+Wu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Giant Robot Bug attacks giant Real Bug. All Tokyo in massive danger while scintist strugle to predict desrutuctive insect battle.

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    I suggest you read Slashdot
  2. yay for RHex by JoelMeow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    RHex has been around for a while now. Check out rhex.org for more recent work, and some cool movies of it in action.