ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Robert Full - Biologist
Robert Full studies cockroach legs and gecko feet. His research is helping build tomorrow's robots, based on evolution's ancient engineering.

Why you should listen

UC Berkeley biologist Robert Full is fascinated by the motion of creatures like cockroaches, crabs and geckos having many legs, unusual feet or talented tails. He has led an effort to demonstrate the value of learning from Nature by the creating interdisciplinary collaborations of biologists, engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists from academia and industry. He founded CiBER, the Center for interdisciplinary Bio-inspiration in Education and Research, and the Poly-PEDAL Laboratory, which studies the Performance, Energetics and Dynamics of Animal Locomotion (PEDAL) in many-footed creatures (Poly).

His research shows how studying a diversity of animals leads to the discovery of general principles which inspire the design of novel circuits, artificial muscles, exoskeletons, versatile scampering legged search-and-rescue robots and synthetic self-cleaning dry adhesives based on gecko feet. He is passionate about discovery-based education leading to innovation -- and he even helped Pixar’s insect animations in the film A Bug's Life.

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Robert Full: The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots

Robert Full: Skrivnosti najbolj ogabnih bitij narave se stekajo v robote

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Kako se lahko roboti stabilizirajo na zahtevnem terenu, hodijo z glavo navzdol, izvajajo gimnastične gibe in se zaletavajo v stene, ne da bi se poškodovali? Robert Full si je ogledal neverjetno telo ščurka, da bi pokazal, kaj se lahko od njih naučijo robotski inženirji.
- Biologist
Robert Full studies cockroach legs and gecko feet. His research is helping build tomorrow's robots, based on evolution's ancient engineering. Full bio

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Even nature'sNarava mostnajbolj disgustingOdvratno creaturesbitja
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have importantpomembno secretsskrivnosti,
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imajo pomembne skrivnosti,
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but who would want a swarmroj of cockroachesščurki
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a le kdo bi hotel,
da roj ščurkov hiti proti njemu?
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comingprihajajo towardsproti them?
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YetŠe one of the greatestnajvečji differencesrazlike
betweenmed naturalnaravno and humančlovek technologiestehnologije
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A vendar je ena največjih razlik
med naravno in človeško tehnologijo
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relatesnanaša to robustnessrobustnost.
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povezana z robustnostjo.
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RobustRobustna systemssistemov are stablestabilen in complexkompleksno
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Robustni sistemi so stabilni v zapletenih
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and newnovo environmentsokolja.
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in novih okoljih.
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RemarkablyIzredno, cockroachesščurki can self-stabilizeself-stabilizacijo
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Osupljivo, a ščurki se lahko
samouravnavajo,
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runningteče over roughgrobo terrainteren.
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ko tečejo prek neravnega površja.
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When we put a jetjet packpakiranje on them,
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Ko smo jim dali raketni pogon
ali pa povzročili motnjo, kot je potres,
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or give them a perturbationmotenj like an earthquakepotres,
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we discoveredodkriti that theirnjihovi wonderfullyčudovito tunednastavljen legsnog
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smo odkrili, da jim njihove
čudovito uglašene noge
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allowdovolite them to self-stabilizeself-stabilizacijo
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omogočijo, da se samouravnavajo
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withoutbrez usinguporabo any of theirnjihovi brainpowerintelektualnega potenciala.
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brez posredovanja možganov.
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They can go over complexkompleksno terrainteren like grasstrava,
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Lahko gredo čez
zapleteno površje, kot je trava,
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no problemproblem, and not get destabilizeddestabilized.
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brez problema in se ne destabilizirajo.
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We discoveredodkriti a newnovo behaviorvedenje where,
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Odkrili smo novo vrsto vedenja,
kjer se zaradi svoje oblike
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because of theirnjihovi shapeobliko,
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they actuallydejansko rollroll automaticallysamodejno to theirnjihovi sidestran
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pravzaprav avtomatično zavalijo na bok,
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to go throughskozi this artificialumetno testtest bitbit of grasstrava.
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da lahko potujejo prek te testne zelenice.
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RobustRobustna systemssistemov can performopraviti multiplevečkraten tasksnaloge
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Robustni sistemi lahko izvajajo
več nalog z isto strukturo.
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with the sameenako structurestrukturo.
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Here'sTukaj je a newnovo behaviorvedenje we'vesmo discoveredodkriti.
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Tu je novo vedenje, ki smo ga odkrili.
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The animalsživali rapidlyhitro invertinvertni and disappearizginejo
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Živali se zelo hitro obrnejo in izginejo
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in lessmanj than 150 millisecondsmilisekundah — you never see them —
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v manj kot 150 milisekundah -
sploh jih ne vidite -
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usinguporabo the sameenako structuresstrukture that
they use to runteči, theirnjihovi legsnog.
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z uporabo struktur,
ki jih imajo za tek, svojih nog.
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They can runteči upsidenavzgor down
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Tečejo lahko z glavo navzdol
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very rapidlyhitro on rodspalice, branchesveje and wiresžice,
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zelo hitro po palicah, vejah in žicah,
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and if you perturbNarušiti one of those branchesveje,
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in če vznemirite eno teh vej,
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they can do this.
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lahko naredijo tole.
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They can performopraviti gymnasticgimnastiko maneuversmanevri
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Izvajajo lahko gimnastične gibe,
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like no robotrobot we have yetše.
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kot jih ne more še noben od robotov,
ki jih imamo.
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And they have nearlyskoraj unlimitedneomejeno
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In imajo skoraj neomejene možnosti
manevriranja s to isto strukturo
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maneuverabilitymanevrske sposobnosti with that sameenako structurestrukturo
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and unprecedentedbrez primere accessdostop to a varietysorta
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in neverjeten dostop do
različnih vrst območij.
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of differentdrugačen areasobmočja.
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They have wingskrila for flyingletenje when they get warmtoplo,
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Imajo krila, da letijo, ko jim je vroče,
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but they use those sameenako wingskrila to flipflip over
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uporabljajo pa jih tudi za to,
da se spet obrnejo, če padejo na hrbet.
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if they get destabilizeddestabilized.
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Very effectiveučinkovito.
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Zelo učinkovito.
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RobustRobustna systemssistemov are alsotudi faultkrivda tolerantstrpna and fail-safevarni.
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Robustni sistemi so tudi tolerantni
do napak in odporni nanje.
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This is the footstopalo of a cockroachščurki.
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To je ščurkovo stopalo. Ima ščetine,
lepljive blazinice in kremplje,
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It has spinesbodice, glueygluey padsblazinice and clawskremplji,
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but if you take off those feetstopala,
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ampak, če jih odstranite,
se še vedno premikajo po grobem terenu
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they can still go over roughgrobo terrainteren,
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like the bottomspodaj videovideo that you see,
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kot vidite na spodnjem posnetku,
ne da bi se kaj upočasnili. Neverjetno.
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withoutbrez hardlytežko slowingupočasnjuje down. ExtraordinaryIzredni.
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They can runteči up meshmreža withoutbrez theirnjihovi feetstopala.
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Brez stopal lahko plezajo
navzgor po mrežah.
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Here'sTukaj je an animalživali usinguporabo a normalnormalno, alternatingizmenično tripodstativ:
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To je žival, ki hodi v
izmenjujočem trikoraku:
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threetri legsnog, threetri legsnog, threetri legsnog,
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tri noge, tri noge, tri noge,
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but in naturenarava, the insectsžuželke oftenpogosto have lostizgubljen theirnjihovi legsnog.
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a v naravi žuželke noge pogosto izgubijo.
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Here'sTukaj je one movingpremikanje with two middlesredi legsnog goneizginil.
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Tu je ena, ki hodi brez dveh srednjih nog.
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It can even loseizgubi threetri legsnog, in a tripodstativ,
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Lahko celo izgubi tri noge iz trikoraka
in razvije nov korak, skakajoč korak.
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and adoptsprejme a newnovo gaithojo, a hoppingskokov gaithojo.
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And I pointtočka out that all of these videosvideo posnetke
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so they're actuallydejansko really fasthitro, when you see this.
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in so v resnici zelo hitri, ko gledate.
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RobustRobustna systemssistemov are alsotudi damageškoda resistantodporen.
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Robustni sistemi so tudi
odporni na poškodbe.
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Here'sTukaj je an animalživali climbingplezanje up a wallzid.
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Tu žival pleza po zidu.
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It looksizgleda like a rapidhitro, smoothgladko, verticalnavpično climbplezati,
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but when you slowpočasi it down,
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a ko to upočasnite,
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you see something very differentdrugačen.
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Here'sTukaj je what they do.
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Kaj pravzaprav naredijo.
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They intentionallynamerno have a
head-onglavo collisiontrčenja with the wallzid
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Namerno se zaletijo naravnost v steno,
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so they don't slowpočasi down and can transitionprehod up it
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da ne izgubijo hitrosti in
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in 75 millisecondsmilisekundah.
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And they can do this in partdel because they have
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In to lahko naredijo deloma tudi zato,
ker imajo neverjetno zunanje okostje.
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extraordinaryizredno exoskeletonszunanje eksoskelete.
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And they're really just madeizdelane up of compliantskladen jointssklepov
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that are tubescevi and platesplošče
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ki so cevi in plošče,
ki so povezani med sabo.
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connectedpovezan to one anotherdrugo.
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Here'sTukaj je a dissectiondisekcijo of an abdomentrebuh of a cockroachščurki.
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Tu je prerez ščurkovega trupa.
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You see these platesplošče, and you
see the compliantskladen membranemembrana.
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Vidite te plošče in gibljivo membrano.
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My engineeringinženiring colleaguekolega at BerkeleyBerkeley
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Moji inženirski kolega z Univerze Berkeley
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designedzasnovan with his studentsštudenti
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je s svojimi študenti oblikoval
novo izdelovalno tehniko,
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a novelroman manufacturingproizvodnja techniquetehnika
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where you essentiallyv bistvu origamiOrigami the exoskeletoneksoskelet,
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kjer pravzaprav zložite
zunanji skelet kot origami.
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you laserlaser cutcut it, laminatezaščitna folija it,
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ga lasersko izrežete, razdelite v plasti,
in nato skupaj zložite robota.
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and you foldkrat it up into a robotrobot.
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And you can do that now in lessmanj than 15 minutesminut.
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In to lahko zdaj naredite
v manj kot 15 minutah.
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These robotsroboti, calledpozval DASHPOMIŠLJAJ,
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Ti roboti se imenujejo DAZH,
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for DynamicDinamično AutonomousAvtonomne SprawledZavalil HexapodHexapod,
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are highlyvisoko compliantskladen robotsroboti,
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in so zelo gibljivi roboti
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and they're remarkablyIzjemno robustrobusten as a resultrezultat
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in posledično zelo robustni.
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of these featuresLastnosti.
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They're certainlyzagotovo incrediblyneverjetno damageškoda resistantodporen.
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Prav gotovo so neverjetno
odporni na poškodbe.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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They even have some of the
behaviorsvedenja of the cockroachesščurki.
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Imajo celo nekaj
vedenjskih lastnosti ščurkov.
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So they can use theirnjihovi smartpameten, compliantskladen bodytelo
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Lahko uporabijo svoje
pametno, gibljivo telo,
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to transitionprehod up a wallzid
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da preidejo na steno
na zelo preprost način.
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in a very simplepreprosto way.
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They even have some of the beginningszačetki
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Imajo tudi zametke hitrega obračanja,
s katerim izginejo.
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of the rapidhitro inversioninverzije behaviorvedenje
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where they disappearizginejo.
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Now we want to know why they can go anywherekjerkoli.
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Radi bi vedeli,
zakaj lahko gredo kamorkoli.
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We discoveredodkriti that they can go throughskozi
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Odkrili smo, da lahko zlezejo
skozi tri milimetrske špranje,
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the heightvišina of two penniesDenarna enota, two stackedzložene penniesDenarna enota,
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to je višina dveh penijev,
drugega na drugem,
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and when they do this,
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they can actuallydejansko runteči throughskozi those confinedomejena spacesprostori
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in ko to naredijo, lahko pravzaprav
tečejo skozi te ozke prostore
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at highvisoko speedshitrosti,
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pri visokih hitrostih,
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althoughčeprav you never see it.
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čeprav tega ne morete nikoli videti.
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To understandrazumeti it better,
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we did a CTCT scanskeniranje of the exoskeletoneksoskelet
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Za boljše razumevanje
smo naredili CT sliko zunanjega okostja,
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and showedpokazala that they can compressstisniti theirnjihovi bodytelo
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ki kaže, da lahko svoje telo stisnejo
za več kot 40 odstotkov.
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by over 40 percentodstotkov.
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We put them in a materialsmaterialov testingtestiranje machinestroj
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Dali smo jih v napravo
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to look at the stressstres strainsev analysisanaliza
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da bi si ogledali analizo stresnih testov
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and showedpokazala that they can withstandzdrži forcessile
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in ugotovili, da lahko prenesejo sile,
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800 timeskrat theirnjihovi bodytelo weighttežo,
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ki so osemstokrat
večje od njihove teže,
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and after this they can flyletenje and runteči
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in po tem lahko letijo in tečejo
povsem normalno.
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absolutelyabsolutno normallyobičajno.
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So you never know where
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Tako nikoli ne veste,
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curiosity-basedradovednost glede researchraziskave will leadsvinec,
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kam vas vodi raziskava,
ki temelji na radovednosti,
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and somedaynekega dne you maylahko want a swarmroj
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in nekega dne boste mogoče želeli,
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of cockroach-inspiredščurek-zgleduje robotsroboti
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da roj robotov, ki se zgledujejo
po ščurkih, hiti proti vam.
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to come at you.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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Thank you.
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Hvala.
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(ApplauseAplavz)
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(Aplavz)
Translated by Andreja Benčina
Reviewed by Matej Divjak

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Robert Full - Biologist
Robert Full studies cockroach legs and gecko feet. His research is helping build tomorrow's robots, based on evolution's ancient engineering.

Why you should listen

UC Berkeley biologist Robert Full is fascinated by the motion of creatures like cockroaches, crabs and geckos having many legs, unusual feet or talented tails. He has led an effort to demonstrate the value of learning from Nature by the creating interdisciplinary collaborations of biologists, engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists from academia and industry. He founded CiBER, the Center for interdisciplinary Bio-inspiration in Education and Research, and the Poly-PEDAL Laboratory, which studies the Performance, Energetics and Dynamics of Animal Locomotion (PEDAL) in many-footed creatures (Poly).

His research shows how studying a diversity of animals leads to the discovery of general principles which inspire the design of novel circuits, artificial muscles, exoskeletons, versatile scampering legged search-and-rescue robots and synthetic self-cleaning dry adhesives based on gecko feet. He is passionate about discovery-based education leading to innovation -- and he even helped Pixar’s insect animations in the film A Bug's Life.

More profile about the speaker
Robert Full | Speaker | TED.com