Leaping Lizards: Bob Full’s work and US&R

Leaping Lizards: Bob Full’s work and US&R

Posted by admin on Jan 12, 2012 at 11:14 am America/Chicago

Several groups are reporting on Prof. Bob Full's lab work in tails for robots based on the ways lizards use tail to counterbalance but also steer when they jump! I was interviewed for comments. I'm a big fan of Bob's. This would have been fantastic to have a small robot that could steer itself as it was lowered (or jumped) from ledge to ledge at the Midas Gold Mine disaster back in 2007. And many robots use some sort of shifting weight like a flipper or a manipulator arm or its shape to try to get over obstacles or down stairs without tipping.  Check it out!

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