Centipede robots with more legs are better at walking over bumps

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A bid of centipede-inspired robots with antithetic numbers of legs amusement that the much legs a robot has, the amended it is astatine moving crossed unpredictable ground

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

More legs, much stableness connected unsmooth terrain

More legs equals much stableness connected unsmooth terrain

Georgia Institute of Technology

The much legs a robot has the amended it seems to beryllium astatine travelling implicit unsmooth terrain.

Baxi Chong astatine the Georgia Institute of Technology and his colleagues built a scope of multi-legged robots from 3D-printed assemblage segments. Each conception had 2 legs and respective motors. The robots had betwixt six and 16 legs successful total.

None of the robots had immoderate sensors oregon cameras truthful they couldn’t spot their situation and conscionable moved successful pre-programmed mode that mimicked arthropods. The researchers tested …

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