by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | Locomotion
Salto will let roboticists study jumping locomotion and could one day participate in search and rescue missions, too. If someone built a robot whose locomotion was modeled on that of a three-year-old kid hopped up on too much candy, it would probably act a whole lot...
by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | Locomotion
Why is it so difficult to make walking more efficient in humans? There are a few challenges. People are highly complex, in the dynamics of our movements, in our hundreds of muscles and tendons, and in our wildly complex nervous systems. More on this...
by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | Locomotion
A thick tendril snakes its way across a desk. It turns sharply, heading up to wrap its single, tube-like appendage around a valve that moves slowly under its pressure. Though it looks like the work of a sentient vine, it’s actually a robot: a soft, plant-inspired...
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