Tagged: Robotics
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“Female” robots
Australian robotic software firm Kadence Photonics has made the world’s first “female” robots. Peter Hill, the founder of Kadence says that after seeing a TV program about the female brain he decided the day after that his line of robots should be based on some of its merits. The female robots di...
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Robosnail and mimcking of animal locomotion
MIT’s Fluid Dynamics Lab seems to be on a biomimicry roll. I recently wrote about the robostrider. Now it is the robosnail that mimics the locomotion of snails. Their 3-link swimmer is actually very interesting as well, but has yet to receive its 15 minutes of media-fame like its siblings. This k...
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Water striders mimicked
Researchers at MIT have solved the mystery of how the insects known as water striders move across water’s surface. While it is no mystery how they manage to stay afloat (many of us have surely done experiments with water’s surface tension), previous theories on how they manage to move on the surf...
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Snake-like robot uses genetic algorithms to make up for injury
New Scientist recently reported on a snake-like robot that uses genetic algorithms to learn how to move. If a part of the robot is damaged, the GA process will find a new method to move about, if the damage is not too severe for it to be able to move at all. This seems like […]