Lizard-Inspired Robot Created By Researchers
- 11 years ago
A lizard-inspired robot is created by researchers.
Researchers from Georgia Tech University have designed and built a robot influenced by lizards and other animals that can move easily on loose, grainy surfaces.
Wheels are not functional on surfaces that engineers call flowable ground, which is a mixture of sand, soil, mud and grass, so making a vehicle that can traverse these kinds of terrain is a challenge.
The robot design was based on the movements of desert animals that move quickly across sand.
This kind of research is contributing to the field of terradynamics, the development of legged vehicles that can move across varying surfaces.
The researchers hope their findings will be used to develop more advanced search and rescue devices, or even help create vehicles that can travel on other planets.
There have been many robot designs inspired by real life animals and even plants.
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology designed an underwater robotic sea turtle that can swim 6 point 6 feet per second.
It can dive over 300 feet below the surface of the ocean.
Researchers from Georgia Tech University have designed and built a robot influenced by lizards and other animals that can move easily on loose, grainy surfaces.
Wheels are not functional on surfaces that engineers call flowable ground, which is a mixture of sand, soil, mud and grass, so making a vehicle that can traverse these kinds of terrain is a challenge.
The robot design was based on the movements of desert animals that move quickly across sand.
This kind of research is contributing to the field of terradynamics, the development of legged vehicles that can move across varying surfaces.
The researchers hope their findings will be used to develop more advanced search and rescue devices, or even help create vehicles that can travel on other planets.
There have been many robot designs inspired by real life animals and even plants.
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology designed an underwater robotic sea turtle that can swim 6 point 6 feet per second.
It can dive over 300 feet below the surface of the ocean.