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Walking on Land and Swimming in the Sea Are Just Some of the Highlights Of This Robot
Amaze Lab
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11/11/2024
The researchers believe this could was anusher in a new age of shape-shifting robots.
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Oftentimes, researchers will look to nature for inspiration, and that's exactly what
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students at Yale have done with this shape-shifting robot.
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This is the Amphibious Robotic Turtle, or ART, a robot based off of creatures known
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to swim around in lakes and oceans.
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But this new device is more than meets the eye.
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It can adapt and change its shape on the fly to better suit different environments.
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This is Robert Baines, one of the PhD students working on the morphing robot, to explain.
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So our unique approach to building this robot involves a design strategy in which we treat
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the robot's structure as a variable.
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So adaptive morphogenesis is the idea that the robot's body is made of all these components,
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and that we can treat those, which are normally fixed materials, as mutable as well.
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So it has little hooks that help it move across hard surfaces, but then those transform into
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flat flippers when it reaches water, creating a robot that's proficient on any terrain.
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I think it can really help in jobs like environmental monitoring, for example of an estuary system,
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where the robot would have to go between patches of land and patches of water, and transition
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back and forth to survey and take data.
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Adding the device could also support divers, retrieving items they might need from land
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and delivering them underwater.
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