Terradynamic Streamlining Inspired from Cockroaches (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Terradynamic Streamlining Inspired from Cockroaches (2 of 2)

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(Top) A discoid cockroach rolls its body to the side and quickly maneuvers through narrow gaps between densely cluttered, grass-like beam obstacles. (Bottom) Adding a rounded, ellipsoidal, exoskeletal shell enables the VelociRoACH legged robot to traverse beam obstacles using roll maneuvers, without adding sensors or changing the open-loop control.

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Chen Li. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab, Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, and CiBER, UC Berkeley

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