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Insect-sized robot navigates mazes with the agility of a cheetah
- ALittleLight 5y agoIt looks impressive, but why does the headline oversell it? The article says this thing has the speed of a roach, 1.5 miles an hour. It's agility is also more roach-like than Cheetah like. I guess, what I'm getting at, is where does "cheetah" come from?
- rvdginste 5y ago> The two footpads give operators full control over the trajectory of the robot, and allow the robot to make turns with a centripetal acceleration that exceeds that of most insects. > In this work, the major innovation was adding these footpads that allow it to make very, very fast turns. > Electrostatic footpads allow the robot to make turns with a centripetal acceleration that matches that of a cheetah.
- smusamashah 5y ago> could be ideal for conducting search and rescue operations or investigating other hazardous situations I always understand these as 'will be used by military for search destroy operations'.
- tomjen3 5y agoProbably, and humanity would win the day such weapons are used to remove many of the terrible people out there, such as the Kims (NK is a human rights nightmare that we have just collectively agreed to ignore). But if we had the technology today, do you think swarms of them would not be searching through the ruins of the apartment complex in Florida?