BirdBot is energy-efficient thanks to nature as a model - EurekAlert

A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of California, Irvine constructed a robot leg that, like its natural model, is very energy efficient. BirdBot benefits from a foot-leg coupling through a network of mu…

image: BirdBot in waterview more  Credit: Dynamic Locomotion Group at MPI-IS Stuttgart/Irvine – If a Tyrannosaurus Rex living 66 million years ago featured a similar leg structure as an ostrich run… [+8039 chars]

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