linkedin post 2019-08-16 06:15:44

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ROACHBOTS. "The other thing to reiterate is how simple and cheap these roachbots are, and if you can use a bunch of them to mimic (or even improve upon) the functionality of larger and more expensive robots, you could save a lot of time and resources by relying on them instead." http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-roaches-with-tiny-magnetic-winch-cooperate-to-scale-steps View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-08-16 06:14:52

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ROBOT SWARMS. "We’ve been fans of heterogeneous robot swarms for a long time, and it’s very cool to think about how teams of VelociRoACH robots might be able to work with teams of quadrotors like this." http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-roaches-with-tiny-magnetic-winch-cooperate-to-scale-steps View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-08-16 06:13:58

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"THE TETHER-ASSISTED climbing mode fills in the last piece of the step climbing strategy— instead of just sending one member of the team up the step after climbing while connected, the winch can be used to pull the other team member up the step as well." http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-roaches-with-tiny-magnetic-winch-cooperate-to-scale-steps View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-08-16 06:12:47

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MODULAR ADVANTAGES. "The cooperating robots benefit from distributed actuation of modular robots to climb steps, while being able to break the modular robot up when it is too cumbersome to drag the connected robots up the step." http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-roaches-with-tiny-magnetic-winch-cooperate-to-scale-steps View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-08-15 03:01:43

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COOPERATIVE INSECTS. "In a world full of things that are much, much bigger than they are, insects manage to do pretty well with getting around. Some of the most successful insects are the social and cooperative ones, like ants, which can do incredible things such as using their bodies to create structures to get themselves across rivers." http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-roaches-with-tiny-magnetic-winch-cooperate-to-scale-steps View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-08-17 05:43:57

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"THE TWO EXCEPTIONS to the observation that major energy metabolic pathways are constrained are the calvin cycle and photosynthesis pathways. These pathways showed significant genetic constraint but no statistical support for developmental constraints most likely due to the difference in photosynthetic capacity between roots and shoots." http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001838 View in LinkedIn
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