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Dutch scientists built a brainless soft robot that runs on air | It runs like a stotting gazelle and swims like a dog.
It runs like a stotting gazelle and swims like a dog.
A team of Dutch scientists at the FOM Institute for Molecular and Atomic Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam built a new kind of robot that can run, go over obstacles, and even swim, all driven only by the flow of air. The tube started oscillating at very high frequency, making a very loud noise,” says Alberto Comoretto, a roboticist at AMOLF and lead author of the study. The first reason for Comoretto’s excitement was that the flapping tube in his lab was driven by the kind of airflow physics that Peter Marshall, Doron Gazit, and Aireh Dranger harnessed to build their famous dancing “Fly Guys” for the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996.
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