Interviews

Robots: Jumping and Crawling in Millirobots

Posted 4 Nov 2008 at 13:59 UTC by mwaibel Share This

Anyone who has studied insects knows why they are such a great source of inspiration for roboticists: They are a treasure trove of extremely diverse and surprisingly simple and robust solutions to complex tasks highly relevant to robotics, including locomotion, navigation and sensing. Insects consistently outperform today's robots in all complex real-world tasks and do so using a minimum of hardware and energy. The latest episode of Robots talks to Sarah Bergbreiter from the University of Maryland, who looks at methods to manufacture insect-sized robots. We then talk to Aaron Hoover at the University of California in Berkeley who demonstrates an example of how mimicking a complex biological system can result in a highly efficient robot. This episode then concludes with the third quarter of sci-fi author Jack Graham's "Selkies".

Robot of the Day

Roach

Built by
Brian Rudy

Recent blogs

12 Feb 2012 AI4U (Observer)
10 Feb 2012 mwaibel (Master)
6 Feb 2012 Flanneltron (Journeyer)
6 Feb 2012 Mubot (Master)
29 Jan 2012 robotsrawsome (Observer)
9 Jan 2012 The Swirling Brain (Master)
9 Jan 2012 steve (Master)
4 Jan 2012 evilrobots (Observer)
21 Dec 2011 spirit (Journeyer)
22 Nov 2011 robotvibes (Master)
16 Nov 2011 JLaplace (Observer)
8 Nov 2011 wesley.zilva (Observer)
31 Oct 2011 jmhenry (Journeyer)
16 Oct 2011 milk3dfx (Observer)
14 Oct 2011 Christophe Menant (Master)
20 Sep 2011 jcoat (Observer)
17 Sep 2011 githinkgp (Observer)
8 Aug 2011 Pi Robot (Master)

Newest Robots

7 Aug 2009 Titan EOD
13 May 2009 Spacechair
6 Feb 2009 K-bot
9 Jan 2009 3 in 1 Bot
15 Dec 2008 UMEEBOT
10 Nov 2008 Robot
10 Nov 2008 SAMM
24 Oct 2008 Romulus
30 Sep 2008 CD-Bot
26 Sep 2008 Little Johnny

User Cert Key

Observer
Apprentice
Journeyer
Master
X
Share this page