Although you may assume its deficiency of limbs may limit how it gets about, snakes have in fact created a number of different varieties of locomotion.Oneof these is “rectilinear locomotion,” and whilst most snakes are able of it, it is most commonly related with big pythons and boas. Even though it is the slowest form of snake locomotion, it is also quite reliable and makes it possible for the snakes to crawl into limited areas. It is these latter two qualities that appealed to Georgia Tech researchers when establishing a new all-terrain robot referred to as Scalybot two…
Proceed Studying Snake’s rectilinear locomotion inspires much more reliable all-terrain robot layout
Segment: Robotics
Tags: Biomimicry,
Georgia Tech,
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