The underwater locomotion for this robotic ‘turtle’ is just so uncanny and amazing. Watch the video of this unit’s ability to bank on a curve, swim upside down and navigate in a straight line through the water:
Finnegan is the name given to this roboturtle which turns out to be quite an [...]
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A real fish can accelerate at a rate of eight to twelve g’s – as fast as a NASA rocket. To scientists, the speed is difficult to explain (the question is known as Gray’s paradox). In an attempt to understand how the flap of thin fish tail can push a fish faster than a propeller, [...]
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Studying the fluid dynamics of snail slime is the impetus behind the RoboSnail. Just like a real snail has sticky substance on its muscular underbelly which allows it to move in every direction on almost any surface (bark, brick walls, glass windows), the Snailbot is comprised of moveable segments that ripple on top of a [...]
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The SILO-6 is an autonomous walking machine intended for the detection and location of antipersonnel land mines. It has also been used as a testing machine for other organizations to use in their study of walking theory. The development of this biobiot was inspired by the locomotion techniques of mammals, arthropods and insects alike. As [...]
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“Gordon” is a biobiot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue. Stitched together from cultured rat neurons, Gordon’s primitive grey matter is removed from rat fetuses and disentangled from each other with an enzyme bath, and then specialized nerve cells are laid out in a nutrient-rich medium across a five-by-five inch array of 60 electrodes. This [...]
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This project is by the people at the Department of Engineering Mechanics at the University of Duisburg in Germany. The whole thing began all the way back in 1992. The goal of creating this robot was, like most of the bot projects at the time, to achieve autonomous walking of a six-legged walking machine in [...]
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Described on Gizmodo as ‘another graceful robot’, this autonomous swimming (and flying version) of a sea creature is probably one of the most beautiful and impressive bots I’ve seen so far! It’s aesthetic appeal is otherworldly and it is an inpsirational unit for any artist’s eyes! That is why I have to revisit this amazing [...]
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In current development is a new kind of bot inspired by the pill bug. Still just existing in sketches is the OLE, which stands for for “Off-road Loescheinheit” or “off-road extinguishing apparatus” (in German).
It is part of the industrial design program at the University of Magdeburg-Stendal, west of Berlin. The idea is that a robot [...]
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