Robots Designed With Insect Instincts
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Robots
Designed With Insect Instincts
Making leaps in the field of
artificial
intelligence, an engineer has created a
grasshopper-inspired jumping robot.
Mirko
Kovac, a young robotics engineer from
the
Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at
Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
Switzerland (EPFL), and his
collaborators have
created an innovative mechanism where
the
robot flies head first into the
object, a tree
for example - without being destroyed -
and
attaches to almost any type of surface
using
sharp prongs. It then detaches on
command. The
goal is to create robots that can
travel in
swarms over rough terrain to come to
the aid
of catastrophe victims. "We are not
blindly imitating nature, but using
the same
principles to possibly improve on it.
Simple
behavioural laws such as jumping,
flying and
perching lead to complex control over
movement
without the need for high
computational
power," Kovac says. This simplicity
allows for greater mobility since the
robots
are not bogged down with heavy
batteries, said
a university release...
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