Brittle Stars Inspire New Generation Robots Able to Adapt to Physical Damage (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

Tohoku University

Brittle Stars Inspire New Generation Robots Able to Adapt to Physical Damage (1 of 2)

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(a) Overview of a brittle star (left) and photographs of locomotion when it lost one of its arms (right). (b) Overview of the brittle star-like robot PENTABOT II (left) and photographs of locomotion when one of the arms was destroyed (right). The robot could keep moving by coordinating the remaining arms appropriately.

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Ishiguro-Kano Laboratory

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