Robert Full: The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots
Robert Full: I segreti delle creature più disgustose sulla terra, riprodotti nei robot
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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between natural and human technologies
tra le tecnologie umane e naturali
auto-stabilizzarsi
come un terremoto,
come un prato,
e non farsi destabilizzare.
un nuovo comportamento in cui,
questo pezzo di prato artificiale.
diversi compiti
da noi scoperto.
rapidamente e spariscono
non li si vede mai --
they use to run, their legs.
che usano per correre, le loro gambe.
a una varietà
di guasto e di errore.
e artigli,
su terreni sconnessi,
Straordinario.
un normale treppiede alternato:
perdono spesso le zampe.
in un treppiede,
un'andatura saltellante.
resistenti ai danni.
che si arrampica su un muro.
tranquilla, verticale,
head-on collision with the wall
e possono continuare a salire
di uno scarafaggio.
see the compliant membrane.
e vedete la membrana che combacia.
con gli origami
behaviors of the cockroaches.
tipici degli scarafaggi.
possono andare ovunque.
che possono oltrepassare
questi spazi confinati
il loro corpo
di test dei materiali
guidata dalla curiosità,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Robert Full - BiologistRobert 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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