RoboCrab: A Horseshoe Crab Inspired Amphibious Robot for Righting in Surf Zones
This video presents RoboCrab, an amphibious robot capable of traversing moderate surf zone environments. By taking inspiration from the morphology, locomotion, and righting behaviors of a horseshoe crab, the robot is designed for traversal and righting on granular terrain, open water, and turbulent surf zones.
The Maryland Robotics Center is an interdisciplinary research center housed in the Institute for Systems Research (link is external) within the A. James Clark School of Engineering (link is external). The mission of the center is to advance robotic systems, underlying component technologies, and applications of robotics through research and educational programs that are interdisciplinary in nature and based on a systems approach. robotics.umd.edu
www.festo.com/cms/de_corp/9772.htm — Autonome Qualle mit kollektivem Verhalten
Selbststeuerndes System mit ausgeprägtem kollektivem Verhalten dank intelligenter Sensorik. Peristaltischer Rückstoß-Antrieb durch acht Tentakel mit Fin Ray Effect® www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/9772.htm — Autonomous jellyfish with collective behaviour
A self-controlling system with a strong tendency towards collective behaviour, thanks to intelligent sensors. Peristaltic recoil propulsion from eight tentacles with Fin Ray Effect®.
www.festo.com/cms/de_corp/9761.htm — Pneumatisch angetriebener Fisch
Schnell, wendig und fast lautlos: Fluidic muscles sorgen für effiziente Bewegung und geschmeidigen Lenkausschlag des Schwanzes. www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/9761.htm — Pneumatically driven fish
Fast, agile and almost silent: fluidic muscles provide efficient propulsion and smooth steering movements of the tail.
It started with a TV show, «Silence of the Bees,» about honeybee populations in steep decline. At Harvard University, electrical engineers Rob Wood and Gu-Yeon Wei, and computer scientist Radhika Nagpal saw a challenge. And, so began the creation of the «RoboBee,» a miniature flying robot, inspired by the biology of a bee and the insect's hive behavior. With support from the National Science Foundation and a program called Expeditions in Computing, Wood put together a diverse team of collaborators to get the RoboBee project off the ground. One challenge is to design a small exoskeleton to house the bee's wings, motors, brain and electronics. Power is another issue. If the fuel source is too heavy, the bee can't fly. For mass production, Wood's team developed a folding assembly, inspired, in a lot of ways, by a children's pop-up book. Ultimately, the researchers hope to build a colony in which the RoboBees interact, using their hive as a refueling station. They say RoboBees have the potential to be useful in a number of ways, including search and rescue missions, traffic monitoring, and weather mapping.
Tiny, Robotic Bees Could Change the World | National Geographic
Robert Wood, a National Geographic 2014 Emerging Explorer and award-winning engineer, is working on entirely new classes of robots—including a fleet of tiny, robotic bees—that may one day transform space exploration, agriculture, and search-and-rescue operations.
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Powered by Robugtix's Bigfoot Engine, the T8 bio-inspired 3D printed spider robot is showing off some Spider Salsa dance moves. And there's a lot to celebrate… the spider robot you've been craving for has gone mainstream!
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Recorded using a swarm of Robugtix T8X Spider Robots.
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