A Robot Ready For The Beach
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Click to view, or right-click and save: Scifri video: A Robot Ready For The Beach.Sand is difficult terrain for robots to navigate. Looking to lizards and cockroaches for clues, Daniel Goldman, a physicist at Georgia Institute of Technology, and his colleagues figured out how to making a robot that wouldn't be slowed by soft ground. The trick? It's all in the step. Music courtesy of PhilN5D, footage courtesy of Chen Li, Paul B. Umbanhowar, Haldun Komsuoglu, Daniel E. Koditschek, and Daniel I. Goldman. Produced by Flora Lichtman . Viewed 4890 times.
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