This week in Nature: Turtle eclipsed – bioinspired robot adapts limbs to move on land and in water. Browse the full issue:
Different terrains can present significant mobility challenges for robots — especially if the robot is required to move between environments. In this week’s issue,and her colleagues present a multi-environment robot that can readily navigate between land and water.
The researchers took inspiration from the living world, designing their robot to morph between a tortoise-like configuration for terrestrial terrain and a turtle-like configuration for aquatic environments. The ‘adaptive morphogenesis’ design strategy allows the Amphibious Robotic Turtle to change its limb morphology and gait to cope with the different environments .
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