Surviving the Crash

Posted on June 23, 2012 by

Insects inspire creation. Watching flies crash headlong into windows, pick themselves up and fly once more inspired a Swiss team of robot designers. If insects can crash and fly again, why not robots? Instead of building a robot that must avoid all collisions or perish, why not build a robot that can survival almost all collisions? In the video below, Adam Klaptocz of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne explains his team’s robot, the AirBurr.

About jjneal

Jonathan Neal is an Associate Professor of Entomology at Purdue University and author of the textbook, Living With Insects (2010). This blog is a forum to communicate about the intersection of insects with people and policy. This is a personal blog. The opinions and materials posted here are those of the author and are in no way connected with those of my employer.
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