Saturday 7 June 2014

Robot mimics cartwheel movement of desert spider

ROBO SPACE
Robot mimics cartwheel movement of desert spider
Frankfurt, Germany (UPI) May 6, 2013 - The newly discovered flic-flac spider is the gold medal gymnast of the arachnid world, cartwheeling and summersaulting its way along the sand dunes of Morocco's Erg Chebbi deserts, which border the Mediterranean coast. The flic-flac spider, Cebrennus rechenbergi, is also the inspiration for a new robot. Ingo Rechenberg, a scientist at the Technical University of Berlin, in German ... more


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