Robert Full: The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots
Robert Full: Os segredos das criaturas mais grosseiras da Natureza, adaptados a 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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repelentes da Natureza
um bando de baratas
between natural and human technologies
entre a tecnologia natural e a humana
como por um terramoto,
maravilhosamente afinadas
complexo como a relva,
estabilidade.
de relva artificial.
desempenhar múltiplas tarefas
que descobrimos.
se invertem e desaparecem
— nunca os vemos —
they use to run, their legs.
para correr, as suas pernas.
movimentos de ginástica
asas para se virarem
a falhas e proteções de segurança.
em terreno acidentado,
um tripé normal, alternado:
com frequência as suas pernas.
sem as duas pernas do meio.
uma marcha saltitante.
quando os vemos.
resistentes a estragos.
head-on collision with the wall
intencional com a parede
podem transpor a parede
de articulações adaptadas
de uma barata.
see the compliant membrane.
e a membrana adjacente.
o exoesqueleto como origami,
Autónomos e Dinâmicos —
resistentes a danos.
behaviors of the cockroaches.
das baratas.
inteligentes e adaptáveis
conseguem ir a todo o lado.
destes espaços reduzidos
comprimir o corpo
de testar materiais
e deformações
movida por curiosidade,
querer 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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