Bizarre Soft Robots Evolve to Run

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This crazy looking thing is a simulated robot, made up of two different kinds of muscles along with bones and soft tissue for structure. This robot wasn't designed, it was evolved over a thousand virtual generations to move as fast, as far, and as functionally as possible.

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Do you think evolving solution is the right way forward?

Robot Swarm- University of Sheffield

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Video Friday: Robot Jellyfish, Robot Dragonfly, and a Crazy Game of Telepresence Soccer - IEEE Spectrum

Video Friday: Robot Jellyfish, Robot Dragonfly, and a Crazy Game of Telepresence Soccer - IEEE Spectrum: "Video Friday: Robot Jellyfish, Robot Dragonfly, and a Crazy Game of Telepresence Soccer


The last time robotic dragonflies of this size roamed the Earth, dinosaurs were still about 100 million years down the line. Insects can't get this big anymore (there isn't enough oxygen in the air to keep them going anymore), but that's why we have robots: to resurrect freakishly large bugs and make them do our bidding.
As far as I know, Festo is a company that exists solely to invent some kind of amazing bio-inspired robot out of nowhere. They've just announced BionicOpter (get it?), a scarily impressive robotic dragonfly"

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