News Headline

Bugs Are Teaching Robots How To Jump Up Without Legs

Source
Newsweek

Publication Date
2017-11-14

When a click beetle lands on its back, it doesn’t roll back and forth to get up. It can’t just turn over like a person could. So, it employs a bizarre mechanism to get up—it “clicks” its back to launch itself into the air and hopes that it lands right-side up.

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http://www.newsweek.com/bug-are-teaching-robots-how-jump-without-legs-709563