Thursday 17 March 2022

Emu inspire robot uses less energy to run

 



Joel Kontinen

How do you make a robot run faster?

The solution is to use emu type legs. For instance,  “Alexander Badri-Spröwitz at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, and his colleagues have done away with the usual approach where every joint in a robotic limb” has that resembles the gait of an emu.

Emus are fast runners and giving their ability to robots makes the robots super fast.

biomimicry or biomimetics has recently become a success, that is, copying amazing design seen in nature, has become a flourishing research field.

Biomimicry is a science that brings out that what God has designed. And what he did, He did very well.

Design in nature is so obvious that it’s practically impossible to deny it.

Source: 

 Sparkes Matthew, 2022,  Watch emu-inspired robot legs that use less energy to run New Scientist 16 March.