Posted on 02/14/2019 7:37:16 AM PST by BenLurkin
Cheetahs are the fastest animals on land, and they owe their speed in part to the design of their skeletons — the tibia and fibula in their legs are fused, helping them maintain stability while sprinting after prey.
However, this unique characteristic also prevents cheetahs from being effective climbers like many other cats. If it could somehow separate its leg bones at will, the animal would be far more formidable.
In a new paper published in the journal IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters, the CSU [Colorado State University] team describes how it gave its robot the ability to adapt to different challenges by equipping it with “shape morphing joints.”
Each of these joints starts out rigid, but when heated up with electricity, it becomes pliable within about 10 seconds. Stop the flow of electricity, and the joint once again becomes rigid.
The CSU team plans to work on building a robot capable of more than just one type of locomotion next — a bot that can both swim and walk, for example, or one that can walk and fly.
(Excerpt) Read more at futurism.com ...
Exactly!
In the McCoy era, the stair obstacle was finally overcome.
team describes how it gave its robot the ability to run down escaping humans no matter where they are by equipping it with “shape morphing joints.”
That’s a sleestak wearing a human mask.
Earliest known prototype of "Bender" bots.
Sort of like when a Democrat fries their own brains rather than agree with a conservative.
Cheetahs are not the fastest animals on earth, that honor belongs to the perrigan falcon.
That’s funny. I marched Drum Corps with a guy nicknamed Sleestak.
I could be mistaken, but I believe the article stated they were the fastest animals on land, not earth. ("Cheetahs are the fastest animals on land...")
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