Green-Roofed New Forest House Treads Lightly on the Forest in Southern England

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German Researchers Create a Robo-Ape for Work in Space

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence has created a robotic system based on an ape that aims to improve the locomotion and mobility characteristics of robots. It is the latest animal-inspired robot to be designed, following the Cheetah and the BigDog  – if the trend continues, we’ll soon have an entire animal kingdom of robots. The  Robo-Ape was created as part of a project aimed at developing intelligent structures for application in mobile robot systems, with a special focus on walking machines. Read the rest of German Researchers Create a Robo-Ape for Work in Space Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bigdog , biomimicry , Boston Dynamics , cheetah , darpa , German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence , iStruct , robo-ape , robot , robots        

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