Jitterbug: Roaches and robots shake it to transition between movements in tricky terrain
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - 08:30
in Earth & Climate
By chasing cockroaches through an obstacle course and studying their movements, the engineers that brought you the cockroach robot and the snake robot discovered that animals' movement transitions corresponded to overcoming potential energy barriers and that they can jitter around to traverse obstacles in complex terrain.