Creeping, swimming and stinging: Special morphine work will save people (video)

Scientists believe that machines will fulfill their important missions, imitating animals and insects. Researchers from the University of Colorado have developed three morphine (repeating movements of living creatures) robots that can change their body and feet as needed to crawl, to crack, or to swim hard terrain. About it reports the portal Tech Explore. In their published scientific work, researchers emphasize that their work can move much more successfully thanks to complex surfaces.

Associate Professor Jango Zhao, who headed the research group, notes that these works are made of materials that can become soft or rigid when changing temperature and are able to move without the need to use bulky energy systems such as magnetic coils. This makes them more versatile and better equipped to potentially help people finding those who survived in hard -to -reach places after natural disasters.

"Our built -in morining scheme uses light artificial muscle, similar to the human muscle, and it is reduced when electricity is supplied," he said. "In built in these artificial muscles in the spine work or in its skin, we can achieve different types forms. In general, this approach opens a promising path to the development of robots that can move and work in difficult conditions. " The article presents three different schemes of morphing robots.

The first design is a delight that can determine and adjust its shape to better capture objects. The other is a four -legged robot that can open to crash through the holes, or grasp the projection to move through the cracks. The last robot can change the shape and position of the legs to easily switch from walking on land in water. According to Zhao, all three systems can be transformed into demand, and if necessary, the process can be turned back.

Now the team will start improving systems and learning how to make these robots more independent in their activities. Systems are now managed remotely, but Zhao implies the time they can work on their own, deciding which form or morphology will be better. To do this, engineers want to equip robots with camera sensors so that the work can "see" the obstacle and decide faster in which way it needs to be overcome. Earlier, Focus told that Shi created a unique work and "overtake" evolution.