Run for your lives! Vampire bat robot adapts to different terrains - TopicsExpress



          

Run for your lives! Vampire bat robot adapts to different terrains by folding its wings so it can walk AND fly - The robot is called Deployable Air-Land Exploration Robot (Daler) - It adapts to different terrains, and was inspired by the vampire bat Daler features a foldable skeleton mechanism covered in fabric - This mechanism can be used as both wings and legs, known as ‘whegs’ - Approach has been dubbed by French experts as adaptive morphology - They hope Daler could be used to fly to the scene of a natural disaster and walk through the rubble to find victims, for example dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2926603/Run-lives-Vampire-bat-robot-adapts-different-terrains-folding-wings-walk-fly.html
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:42:45 +0000

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