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Imitating Nature - From Bug Legs to Walking Robots (Imitating Nature)
Imitating Nature From Bug Legs to Walking Robots - Imitating Nature Author:Toney Allman Take one intrepid bug scientist; add a determination to understand arthropod locomotion; mix with engineers anxious to build a better robot; and humanity gets Spider-bots, Mini-Whegs and iSprawls. This is the story of The Poly-PEDAL Laboratory where ingenious experiments with the likes of cockroaches and centipedes inspired other laboratories to... more » design mini-robots that mimic and eerily resemble the real thing.« less