Plenty of researchers are inspired by nature when improving the design of their own robots. Binggwong Leung, Sanislav Gorb, and Poramate Manoonpong have published a paper that explores dung beetle-like robot (ALPHA) with biomechanical feet that can perform adaptive walking and ball rolling tasks on flat and uneven terrains. It can handle different ball types and heights.
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Nature's All-in-One: Multitasking Robots Inspired by Dung Beetles
As the researchers explain, the modular modular neural-based “contains a central pattern generator (CPG) module, a pattern formation network (PFN) module, and a robot orientation control (ROC) module”
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