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Snake Robots: Can You Watch This Without Squirming?
What happens when you bring nature and robotics together?
The snake robot is just one example of what’s possible with the future of robotics! More and more engineers and designers are turning to nature to inspire solutions to our problems. With inspiration from the way snakes move, the snake robot has the potential to explore the world in new ways, and even save lives! This impressive innovation is just one example of biomimicry; a growing field of science at the intersection of engineering, design, and biology.
Here’s a quick look from the awesome robotics channel, cmurobotics.
Why It Matters
What if we looked to nature more often for inspiration? Nature has already found ingenious was to solve the many problems life on this planet faces. What could we learn from it?
The field of biomimicry explores the intersection of engineering, biology, and design. The way plants and animals, grow, adapt, and move provides scientists and engineers studying biomimicry with endless inspiration. From influencing the shape of a bullet train to informing the way robotics of the future move, we have a lot to learn from the environment around us!
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Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute
The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University was established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks.