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04-09-2014, 01:00 AM
Bionic Kangaroo Hops Into the Future of Robotics
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Finally, a robot that successfully imitates a living thing without making you think of human extinction scenarios from The Terminator.
Germany-based Festo (http://www.festo.com/) has unveiled its latest creation, the Bionic Kangaroo, a hopping robot fashioned in the image of a real kangaroo
See also: Is DARPA's Atlas Robot the Real-Life Terminator? (http://mashable.com/2013/07/13/atlas-robot-darpa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Weighing just over 15 pounds and standing 39 inches tall, the robot has the ability to jump forward at lengths of about two-and-a-half feet and has a vertical leap of a about one-and-a-half feet
With an outer shell designed to mimic the form of a kangaroo, from its tiny front paws down to its curved tail, the robot jumps using pneumatic springs working in conjunction with sensors in its heels and main body. When it lands, it uses the recovered energy stored during leaps for its next jump Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/bionic-kangaro/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Finally, a robot that successfully imitates a living thing without making you think of human extinction scenarios from The Terminator.
Germany-based Festo (http://www.festo.com/) has unveiled its latest creation, the Bionic Kangaroo, a hopping robot fashioned in the image of a real kangaroo
See also: Is DARPA's Atlas Robot the Real-Life Terminator? (http://mashable.com/2013/07/13/atlas-robot-darpa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Weighing just over 15 pounds and standing 39 inches tall, the robot has the ability to jump forward at lengths of about two-and-a-half feet and has a vertical leap of a about one-and-a-half feet
With an outer shell designed to mimic the form of a kangaroo, from its tiny front paws down to its curved tail, the robot jumps using pneumatic springs working in conjunction with sensors in its heels and main body. When it lands, it uses the recovered energy stored during leaps for its next jump Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/bionic-kangaro/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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