Robert Full: The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots
Robert Full: O segredo das criaturas mais nojentas da natureza, canalizado em robôs
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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mais nojentas da natureza
de ter um enxame de baratas
between natural and human technologies
entre tecnologia natural e humana
como um terremoto,
altamente adpatadas
por terrenos complexos como grama,
automaticamente para o lado
de teste de grama artificial.
desempenhar múltiplas tarefas
que descobrimos.
se viram e desaparecem
-- nunca as vemos --
they use to run, their legs.
que usam para correr, suas patas.
quando ficam com calor,
essas mesmas asas para se virar
tolerantes a erros e à prova de falhas.
por uma malha sem as patas.
um tripé normal alternado:
normalmente já perderam as patas.
sem as duas patas do meio.
três patas em um tripé,
uma marcha em saltos.
bem rápidas, quando observamos.
são resistentes a danos.
vertical rapida e suave,
head-on collision with the wall
na parede de propósito
e possam subir
see the compliant membrane.
a membrana complacente.
o esqueleto como origami,
em menos de 15 minutos.
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resistentes a danos
behaviors of the cockroaches.
comportamentos das baratas.
inteligente e complacente
podem ir a qualquer lugar.
duas moedas empilhadas,
por esses espaços confinados
comprimir seus corpos
de testes de materiais
por curiosidade vai chegar.
queiram que um enxame
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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