Sunday, May 1, 2011
Robot Based On Cartwheeling Caterpillars - Science News
Robot Based On Cartwheeling Caterpillars - Science News: Called GoQBot, the 10-centimeter-long robot has a hammer-shaped head and a silicone body embedded with metal coils. The coils contract, musclelike, when pulsed with current, and within 200 milliseconds the crawling bot becomes a wheel and rolls off at impressively high speeds.
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biomimetic,
robotics
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