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Jollbot: Robot Explorer!

jaell published on December 11, 2008 in celebrity and technology. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .


I know what you’re thinking. Why is that painter guy from Murphy Brown holding this big green round thing?

Well don’t be silly… it’s not him. It’s engineer Rhodri Armour from the University of Bath’s Center for Biomimetic & Natural Technologies in England. He and his colleagues have developed the Jollbot. Apparently this thing is the first robot that can jump like a grasshopper and roll over smoother terrain.

By not using wheels and being able to store energy in spring-like elements, this robot can get out of sticky situations. That makes it an ideal candidate for a new space exploration robot. Way to go, Jollbot.

Here’s a video of it doing its weeble-wobble/roly-poly/grasshoppery thing:

Neato.

Grasshopper-bot!

jackson published on May 21, 2008 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

“Instead of muscles, the microbot uses a 0.6 gram motor that charges two torsion springs. With its current battery pack, it can make about 300 jumps before it needs a recharge, but the researchers envision tiny solar cells eventually helping increase its uptime. Like even tinier flea-sized microbots developed at Berkeley, insect-like bots could be used in swarms to act as exploring or sensing agents in areas where humans would rather not tread.”

That robot is incroyable!

Amazing work by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne!!!

(amazingness via wired.com)